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ἐφεστρίς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐφεστρίς ἐφεστρίδος

Structure: ἐφεστριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)fe/nnumi

Sense

  1. an upper garment, wrapper

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐφεστρίς ἐφεστρίδε ἐφεστρίδες
Genitive ἐφεστρίδος ἐφεστρίδοιν ἐφεστρίδων
Dative ἐφεστρίδι ἐφεστρίδοιν ἐφεστρίσιν*
Accusative ἐφεστρίδα ἐφεστρίδε ἐφεστρίδας
Vocative ἐφεστρί ἐφεστρίδε ἐφεστρίδες

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

  • ἐπειδάν γε μὴν ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ γένωμαι, πάνυ μὲν ἀλεεινοὶ χιτῶνεσ οἱ τοῖχοί μοι δοκοῦσιν εἶναι, πάνυ δὲ παχεῖαι ἐφεστρίδεσ οἱ ὄροφοι, στρωμνήν γε μὴν οὕτωσ ἀρκοῦσαν ἔχω ὥστ’ ἔργον μέγ’ ἐστὶ καὶ ἀνεγεῖραι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 4 39:1)

Synonyms

  1. an upper garment

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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