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ἔλαιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔλαιον ἐλαίου

Structure: ἐλαι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: e)lai/a

Sense

  1. olive oil, commonly used as an anointing oil
  2. any oily substance
  3. (at Athens) the oil market

Declension

Second 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

  • ἐλαίοισ, ἃ πρὸσ τὰσ βαφὰσ οἱ μυρεψοὶ λαμβάνουσιν; (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 6 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. the oil market

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Similar forms

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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