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βύρσα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βύρσα βύρσης

Structure: βυρς (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. the skin stripped off a hide
  2. the skin of a live animal

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐπίπαστα λείξασ δημιόπραθ’ ὁ βάσκανοσ ῥέγκει μεθύων ἐν ταῖσι βύρσαισ ὕπτιοσ. (Aristotle, Prologue 3:19)
  • ἐπειδὰν χωρίον οἱ ἀγρεύοντεσ πρανὲσ εὑρ́ωσι καθῆκον ἐσ κοιλότητα, πρῶτα μὲν φράγματι ἰσχυρῷ πέριξ ὠχυρώσαντο, δεύτερον δὲ τὸ κάταντεσ καὶ τὸ περὶ τῷ πέρατι ὁμαλὸν αὐτοῦ νεοδάρτοισ βύρσαισ κατεστόρεσαν· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 13 3:3)
  • ἔμελλεν οὖν κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ ταῖσ βύρσαισ καὶ ὁ χρώσ σφισιν ἔσεσθαι δυσώδησ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 38 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. the skin stripped off a hide

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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