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δυσχλαινία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσχλαινία

Structure: δυσχλαινι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: xlai=na

Sense

  1. mean clothing

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

  • οἶσθ’ ἡνίκ’ ἦλθεσ Ἰλίου κατάσκοποσ, δυσχλαινίᾳ τ’ ἄμορφοσ, ὀμμάτων τ’ ἄπο φόνου σταλαγμοὶ σὴν κατέσταζον γένυν; (Euripides, Hecuba, episode17)

Synonyms

  1. mean clothing

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

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