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βυρσίνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βυρσίνη

Structure: βυρσιν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: bu/rsa

Sense

  1. a leathern thong

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

  • πέλτη μικρὰ βυρσίνη, πλατύλογχα μικρά, ἄζωστοι πλατύσημοι χιτῶνεσ, ἐπιπόρπημα, ὡσ ἔφην, δορὰ καὶ προθωράκιον. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 14:11)

Synonyms

  1. a leathern thong

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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