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ἑλκεχίτων?

Third declension Noun; Transliteration: helkechitōn

Principal Part: ἑλκεχίτων ἑλκεχίτωνος

Structure: ἑλκεχιτων (Stem)

Sense

  1. trailing the tunic, with long tunic

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἑλκεχίτων ἑλκεχίτωνε ἑλκεχίτωνες
Genitive ἑλκεχίτωνος ἑλκεχιτώνοιν ἑλκεχιτώνων
Dative ἑλκεχίτωνι ἑλκεχιτώνοιν ἑλκεχίτωσι(ν)
Accusative ἑλκεχίτωνα ἑλκεχίτωνε ἑλκεχίτωνας
Vocative ἑλκεχίτων ἑλκεχίτωνε ἑλκεχίτωνες

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

  • ἀλλὰ σὺ Δήλῳ, Φοῖβε, μάλιστ ἐπιτέρπεαι ἦτορ, ἔνθα τοι ἑλκεχίτωνες Ιἄονες ἠγερέθονται αὐτοῖς σὺν παίδεσσι καὶ αἰδοίῃς ἀλόχοισιν. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , part 15:4)
  • ἔνθα δὲ Βοιωτοὶ καὶ Ιἄονες ἑλκεχίτωνες Λοκροὶ καὶ Φθῖοι καὶ φαιδιμόεντες Ἐπειοὶ σπουδῇ ἐπαΐσσοντα νεῶν ἔχον, οὐδὲ δύναντο ὦσαι ἀπὸ σφείων φλογὶ εἴκελον Ἕκτορα δῖον οἳ μὲν Ἀθηναίων προλελεγμένοι: (Homer, Iliad, Book 13 66:1)
  • περὶ ὧν κοινῶς μὲν οὕτω φησίν "ἔνθα δὲ Βοιωτοὶ καὶ Ιἄονες "ἑλκεχίτωνες, Λοκροὶ καὶ Φθῖοι καὶ φαιδιμόεντες "Ἐπειοί: (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 5 9:6)
  • 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

Similar forms

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

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