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εἴλυμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἴλυμα εἴλυματος

Structure: εἰλυματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. a wrapper

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

  • πρὶν μὲν ἔχων βερβέριον, καλύμματ’ ἐσφηκωμένα, καὶ ξυλίνουσ ἀστραγάλουσ ἐν ὠσὶ καὶ ψιλὸν περὶ πλευρῇσι δέρριον βοόσ, νήπλυτον εἴλυμα κακῆσ ἀσπίδοσ, ἀρτοπώλισιν κἀθελοπόρνοισιν ὁμιλέων ὁ πονηρὸσ Ἀρτέμων,6 κίβδηλον εὑρίσκων βίον, πολλὰ μὲν ἐν δουρὶ τιθεὶσ αὐχένα, πολλὰ δ’ ἐν τροχῷ, πολλὰ δὲ νῶτα σκυτίνῃ μάστιγι θωμιχθείσ, κόμην πώγωνὰ τ’ ἐκτετιλμένοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 46 1:2)
  • τούνεκα νῦν ὑμέασ γουναζόμεθ’, αἴ κε πίθησθε, δοῦναι ὅσον τ’ εἴλυμα περὶ χροόσ, ἠδὲ κομίσσαι ἀνέρασ οἰκτείραντασ ὁμήλικασ ἐν κακότητι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 19:3)
  • ἄστυ δέ μοι δεῖξον, δὸσ δὲ ῥάκοσ ἀμφιβαλέσθαι, εἴ τί που εἴλυμα σπείρων ἔχεσ ἐνθάδ’ ἰοῦσα. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 6 16:11)

Synonyms

  1. a wrapper

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

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