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ἑλκεχίτων

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑλκεχίτων ἑλκεχίτωνος

Structure: ἑλκεχιτων (Stem)

Sense

  1. trailing the tunic, with long tunic

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

  • εἶναι γὰρ καί τινα τοιοῦτον ζῆλον ἐν τοῖσ Ἕλλησι, καὶ Ιἄονασ ἑλκεχίτωνασ εἰρῆσθαι, καὶ τοὺσ περὶ Λεωνίδαν κτενιζομένουσ, ὅτ’ ἐξῄεσαν εἰσ τὴν μάχην, καταφρονηθῆναι λέγουσιν ὑπὸ τῶν Περσῶν, ἐν δὲ τῇ μάχῃ θαυμασθῆναι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 3 14:4)

Synonyms

  1. trailing the tunic

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

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