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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

  • ἔλεγον δὲ καὶ εἰσ Φελλὼ τὴν αὑτῶν πατρίδα ἐπείγεσθαι. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 4:4)
  • 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)
  • καὶ δή ποτε ὑπ’ ἔρωτοσ καὶ ἀμηχανίασ ἐβουλεύσατο ὁ Κινύρασ ἁρπάσασ τὴν Ἑλένην ‐ ἐδόκει δὲ κἀκείνῃ ταῦτα ‐ οἴχεσθαι ἀπιόντασ ἔσ τινα τῶν ἐπικειμένων νήσων, ἤτοι ἐσ τὴν Φελλὼ ἢ ἐσ τὴν Τυρόεσσαν. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 25:3)
  • Ἑρμείῃ Βαίτων ἁλινηχέοσ ὄργανα τέχνησ ἄνθετο, δειμαίνων γήραοσ ἀδρανίην ἄγκυραν, γυρόν τε λίθον, σπυρίδασ θ’ ἅμα φελλῷ, ἄγκιστρον, κώπην, καὶ λίνα καὶ δόνακασ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 291)

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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