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γένειον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γένειον

Structure: γενει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: genu/s

Sense

  1. the part covered by the beard, the chin, chin
  2. the beard
  3. the cheek

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

  • οὐ δέχομαι φθονεροῖσ, Παιάν, φρίσσοντα γενείοισ, τοιούτου τλήμων εἵνεκεν εὐξάμενοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 272)
  • Θαμύριδι δὲ ἐγγὺσ καθεζομένῳ τοῦ Πελίου διεφθαρμέναι αἱ ὄψεισ καὶ ταπεινὸν ἐσ ἅπαν σχῆμά ἐστι καὶ ἡ κόμη πολλὴ μὲν ἐπὶ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ, πολλὴ δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ γενείοισ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 30 14:3)

Synonyms

  1. the part covered by the beard

  2. the beard

  3. the cheek

Related

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

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