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ἐλλύχνιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλλύχνιον ἐλλύχνιου

Structure: ἐλλυχνι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: e)n, lu/xnos

Sense

  1. a lamp-wick

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

  • καὶ ἀπαγορεῦσαι τῇ γυναικὶ μήτε ἅλασ χρηννύειν μήτε ἐλλύχνιον μήτε κύμινον μήτε ὀρίγανον μήτε ὀλὰσ μήτε στέμματα μήτε θυηλήματα, ἀλλὰ λέγειν, ὅτι τὰ μικρὰ ταῦτα πολλά ἐστι τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ. (Theophrastus, Characters, 13:2)
  • τὰ δὲ λύχνα ἐστὶ ἐμβάφια ἔμπλεα ἁλὸσ καὶ ἐλαίου, ἐπιπολῆσ δὲ ἔπεστι αὐτὸ τὸ ἐλλύχνιον, καὶ τοῦτο καίεται παννύχιον, καὶ τῇ ὁρτῇ οὔνομα κέεται λυχνοκαί̈η. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 62 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a lamp-wick

Related

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

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