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ἐγγήραμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐγγήραμα ἐγγήραματος

Structure: ἐγγηραματ (Stem)

Etym.: from e)gghra/skw

Sense

  1. a comfort for old age

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐγγήραμα ἐγγηράματε ἐγγηράματα
Genitive ἐγγηράματος ἐγγηραμάτοιν ἐγγηραμάτων
Dative ἐγγηράματι ἐγγηραμάτοιν ἐγγηράμασιν*
Accusative ἐγγήραμα ἐγγηράματε ἐγγηράματα
Vocative ἐγγήραμα ἐγγηράματε ἐγγηράματα

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

  • ὥσπερ Διονύσιόν τισ ἔπεισε κάλλιστον ἐντάφιον ἡγεῖσθαι τὴν τυραννίδα, κάλλιστον αὐτὸσ ἐγγήραμα τὴν πολιτείαν ποιησάμενοσ ἀναπαύσεσιν ἐχρῆτο καὶ παιδιαῖσ, ὁπότε σχολάζοι, τῷ συντάττεσθαι βιβλία καὶ τῷ γεωργεῖν. (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 24 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. a comfort for old age

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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