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ἐρύθημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐρύθημα ἐρύθηματος

Structure: ἐρυθηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from e)ruqai/nomai

Sense

  1. a redness on the skin, a blush, redness

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

  • ἴδοι δ’ ἄν τισ οὐδ’ ἀργὸν ἐνταῦθα τὸν χρυσὸν οὐδὲ μόνου τοῦ τέρποντοσ εἵνεκα τῷ λοιπῷ κόσμῳ συνεσπαρμένον, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐγήν τινα ἡδεῖαν ἀπολάμπει καὶ τὸν οἶκον ὅλον ἐπιχρώννυσι τῷ ἐρυθήματι· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 8:3)
  • εἴ που κάλλιστον ὁρ́μον εἶδεσ ἐκ τῶν στιλπνοτάτων καὶ ἰσομεγεθῶν μαργαριτῶν, οὕτωσ ἐπὶ στίχου ἐπεφύκεσαν ἐκοσμοῦντο δὲ μάλιστα τῷ τῶν χειλῶν ἐρυθήματι. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 9:9)
  • οὐκοῦν οὔτε ἐμειδίασεν ἄλλοσ σὺν Ἀφροδίτῃ τοσαύτῃ οὔτε μὴν ἔστησεν ἐρυθήματι κινούμενον ἤδη τὸν γέλωτα. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:5)

Related

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

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