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γαλέη

First declension Noun; Feminine 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γαλέη

Structure: γαλε (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a weasel, marten-cat or polecat

Declension

First 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

  • ἐν δ’ ἀναμὶξ σαργοί τε καὶ ἵππουροι γλάνιέσ τε, μόρμυροσ ἄντα δ’ ἐῆν, γαλέη,7 σπάροσ οὓσ ὁ μάγειροσ σίζοντασ παρέθηκε φέρων, κνίσωσε δὲ δῶμα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 12 13:2)
  • Ἱκέσιοσ ἐν τοῖσ περὶ ὕλησ τῶν γαλεῶν βελτίονασ εἶναι καὶ ἁπαλωτέρουσ τοὺσ ἀστερίασ καλουμένουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 432)
  • λόγοσ, ὅτι καὶ γυπὸσ ἐγκέφαλοσ καὶ αἰθυίησ ὠμῆσ κραδίη, καὶ αἱ κατοικίδιοι γαλέαι βρωθέντεσ λύουσι τὴν νοῦσον· ἐγὼ δὲ τῶνδε μὲν οὐκ ἐπειρήθην· ἐθεασάμην δὲ ἀνθρώπου γε νεοσφαγέοσ ὑποθέντασ φιάλην τῷ τρώματι καὶ ἀρυσαμένουσ τοῦ αἵματοσ πίνοντασ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 128)
  • αἱ γαλέαι μαλακῶσ χρῄζοντι καθεύδειν· (Theocritus, Idylls, 32)

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

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