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ξυήλη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ξυήλη

Structure: ξυηλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: cu/w

Sense

  1. a tool for scraping wood, a plane or rasp
  2. a sickle-shaped dagger

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

  • εἶχον δὲ καὶ κνημῖδασ καὶ κράνη καὶ παρὰ τὴν ζώνην μαχαίριον ὅσον ξυήλην Λακωνικήν, ᾧ ἔσφαττον ὧν κρατεῖν δύναιντο, καὶ ἀποτεμόντεσ ἂν τὰσ κεφαλὰσ ἔχοντεσ ἐπορεύοντο, καὶ ᾖδον καὶ ἐχόρευον ὁπότε οἱ πολέμιοι αὐτοὺσ ὄψεσθαι ἔμελλον. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 7 19:1)
  • εἵλοντο δὲ Δρακόντιον Σπαρτιάτην, ὃσ ἔφυγε παῖσ ὢν οἴκοθεν, παῖδα ἄκων κατακανὼν ξυήλῃ πατάξασ, δρόμου τ’ ἐπιμεληθῆναι καὶ τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ προστατῆσαι. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 8 30:4)
  • ὅστισ δὲ πεπαίδευται καὶ παλτὸν ξύσασθαι, ἀγαθὸν καὶ ξυήλησ μὴ ἐπιλαθέσθαι. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 41:6)

Similar forms

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

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