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φελλός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φελλός φελλοῦ

Structure: φελλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the cork-tree

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φελλός φελλώ φελλοί
Genitive φελλοῦ φελλοῖν φελλῶν
Dative φελλῷ φελλοῖν φελλοῖς
Accusative φελλόν φελλώ φελλούς
Vocative φελλέ φελλώ φελλοί

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

  • μετ’ ὀλίγον δὲ πολλαὶ νῆσοι ἐφαίνοντο, πλησίον μὲν ἐξ ἀριστερῶν ἡ Φελλώ, ἐσ ἣν ἐκεῖνοι ἔσπευδον, πόλισ ἐπὶ μεγάλου καὶ στρογγύλου φελλοῦ κατοικουμένη· (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 4:6)
  • ὅπωσ κἂν πιεσθῇ ποτε, φελλοῦ δίκην ὑπὸ κουφότητοσ, ἀναφέρηται. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 10 6:1)
  • καὶ καθάπερ εἰσί τινεσ ὑπερβολαὶ ἐπὶ ὑπερβολαῖσ, ὡσ τὸ κουφότερον εἶναι φελλοῦ σκιᾶσ, δειλότερον δὲ λαγὼ Φρυγόσ, ἐλάττω δ’ ἔχειν γῆν τὸν ἀγρὸν ἐπιστολῆσ Λακωνικῆσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 60:9)
  • ὅταν δὲ καταβαίνοντοσ τοῦ φελλοῦ καὶ τῆσ βακτηρίασ ἔλθῃ τῶν γεγραμμένων ὃ βούλει δηλοῦν κατὰ τὸ χεῖλοσ τοῦ τεύχουσ, ἆραι κελεύει τὸν πυρσόν· (Polybius, Histories, book 10, chapter 44 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. the cork-tree

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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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