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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

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

  • πλὴν ἐκεῖνά γε ποιῆσαι, φελλούσ τε γὰρ πολλοὺσ ἀφεῖναι αὐτοῖσ καὶ τῶν κοντῶν τινασ, ὡσ ἐπὶ τούτων ἀπονήξαιντο, εἴ τινι αὐτῶν περιτύχοιεν, καί τέλοσ καὶ τὴν ἀποβάθραν αὐτὴν οὐ μικρὰν οὖσαν. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 20:3)
  • τὸ μὲν γὰρ πρῶτον φελλοῖσ τισι περιπεσόντασ ἀνέχειν ἐπὶ τούτων ἑαυτοὺσ καὶ ἀπονήχεσθαι πονηρῶσ, ὕστερον δὲ τὴν ἀποβάθραν ἰδόντασ ἤδη πρὸσ ἑώ προσνήξασθαί τε αὐτῇ καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν ἐπιβάντασ εὐμαρῶσ προσενεχθῆναι τῇ Ζακύνθῳ. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 21:6)
  • 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)
  • φελλὸσ ἐν ταῖσ βαυκίσιν ἐγκεκάττυται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 23 1:2)
  • ἅτε γὰρ εἰνάλιον πόνον ἐχοίσασ βαθὺν σκευᾶσ ἑτέρασ, ἀβάπτιστόσ εἰμι, φελλὸσ ὣσ ὑπὲρ ἑρ́κοσ ἅλμασ. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 2 24:3)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ μεσογαίᾳ χωρία Φελλὸσ καὶ Ἀντίφελλοσ καὶ ἡ Χίμαιρα, ἧσ ἐμνήσθημεν ἐπάνω. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 3 14:4)

Synonyms

  1. the cork-tree

Related

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

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