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ἔλυμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔλυμα ἔλυματος

Structure: ἐλυματ (Stem)

Etym.: e)lu/w

Sense

  1. the tree or stock of the plough

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἔλυμα ἐλύματε ἐλύματα
Genitive ἐλύματος ἐλυμάτοιν ἐλυμάτων
Dative ἐλύματι ἐλυμάτοιν ἐλύμασιν*
Accusative ἔλυμα ἐλύματε ἐλύματα
Vocative έ̓λυμα ἐλύματε ἐλύματα

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

  • ὃσ γὰρ βουσὶν ἀροῦν ὀχυρώτατόσ ἐστιν, εὖτ’ ἂν Ἀθηναίησ δμῷοσ ἐν ἐλύματι πήξασ γόμφοισιν πελάσασ προσαρήρεται ἱστοβοῆι. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 49:11)
  • δάφνησ δ’ ἢ πτελέησ ἀκιώτατοι ἱστοβοῆεσ, δρυὸσ ἔλυμα, γύησ πρίνου· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 49:14)

Synonyms

  1. the tree or stock of the plough

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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