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ἔτνος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔτνος ἔτνεος

Structure: ἐτνο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a thick soup of pulse, pea-soup

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

  • τὸν γείτονα γοῦν μοι τὸν ὁμότεχνον οἶσθα τὸν Σίμωνα, οὐ πρὸ πολλοῦ δειπνήσαντα παρ’ ἐμοί, ὅτε τὸ ἔτνοσ ἥψουν τοῖσ Κρονίοισ δύο τόμουσ τοῦ ἀλλᾶντοσ ἐμβαλών. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 14:1)
  • ὦ μῆτερ ἀνάδοσ δεῦρο τὴν ἐτνήρυσιν, ἵν’ ἔτνοσ καταχέω τοὐλατῆροσ τουτουί. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene5)
  • κἄστιν <ἔτ’> ἔτνοσ τι· (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, antistrophe 12)
  • ἐγὼ δ’ ἔτνοσ γε πίσινον εὔχρων καὶ καλόν· (Aristotle, Episode21)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ἢν ἑστιᾷσ τοὺσ φίλουσ καὶ πάντα ᾖ παρεσκευασμένα, διὰ τοῦτο ἐν μέσοισ τοῖσ πέμμασι καὶ τοῖσ ὀρνέοισ καὶ λοπάσι τοσαύταισ καὶ συσὶν ἀγρίοισ καὶ λαγωοῖσ καὶ ὑπογαστρίοισ καὶ σαπέρδην ἐνθήσεισ καὶ ἔτνοσ, ὅτι κἀκεῖνο παρεσκεύαστο, ἀμελήσεισ δὲ τῶν εὐτελεστέρων. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 56 1:4)

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

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