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ἔγκαυμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγκαυμα ἔγκαυματος

Structure: ἐγκαυματ (Stem)

Etym.: e)gkai/w

Sense

  1. a sore from burning

Declension

Third 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

  • ἴχνη μὲν καὶ σημεῖα πολλὰ τῶν ἐγκαυμάτων, οὐκ οἶδα δὲ ὅπωσ ἐξαλήλιπται, μᾶλλον δὲ ἐκκέκοπται. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 24:11)
  • ὁρᾷσ γοῦν, ὅπωσ διάκειμαι ὑπὸ τῶν ἐγκαυμάτων. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, xanthus and thalassa, chapter 22)

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

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