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εἰρεσιώνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἰρεσιώνη

Structure: εἰρεσιων (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=ros

Sense

  1. a harvest-wreath, wound round with wool

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

  • ἐὰν γὰρ αὐτὴν εἷσ μόνοσ σπινθὴρ λάβῃ ὥσπερ παλαιὰν εἰρεσιώνην καύσεται. (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 2:3)
  • τὴν εἰρεσιώνην μου κατεσπαράξατε. (Aristotle, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:3)
  • τὴν δὲ εἰρεσιώνην ἐκφέρουσι κλάδον ἐλαίασ ἐρίῳ μὲν ἀνεστεμμένον, ὥσπερ τότε τὴν ἱκετηρίαν, παντοδαπῶν δὲ ἀνάπλεων καταργμάτων διὰ τὸ λῆξαι τὴν ἀφορίαν, ἐπᾴδοντεσ· (Plutarch, chapter 22 5:1)
  • ὅταν πατρίδων ἐπιτύχοιεν, παραγινομένουσ εἰσ ἐκείνην τὴν πόλιν, ἣν διὰ τὸν ναὸν μητρόπολιν ἕξουσιν, ἐφ’ ἡμέρασ ὀκτὼ ἑορτὴν ἄγοντασ ὁλοκαυτεῖν τε καὶ θύειν τῷ θεῷ τότε χαριστήρια, φέροντασ ἐν ταῖσ χερσὶν εἰρεσιώνην μυρσίνησ καὶ ἰτέασ σὺν κράδῃ φοίνικοσ πεποιημένην τοῦ μήλου τοῦ τῆσ περσέασ προσόντοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 311:1)

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

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