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γήτειον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: γήτειον

Structure: γητει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a leek

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

  • ἀλλ’ εἰσ καιρὸν οὑτοσὶ αὐτὸσ ἐμπολήσασ γε, ὡσ ὁρῶ, πυριάτην τέ τινα καὶ ἐγκρυφίασ καὶ γήτεια καὶ φύκασ ^ καὶ οἶβον τουτονὶ καὶ λωγάνιον καὶ τοῦ βοὸσ τὸ πολύπτυχον ἔγκατον καὶ φώκτασ. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 2:14)
  • "τί οὖν οὐχὶ κρίμνον μὲν ἡμεῖσ ἀντὶ πόλτου μάττομεν ἀντὶ δ’ ἀσπαράγου γήτεια καὶ σκολύμουσ παρασκευάζομεν, τὸν δ’ ἀνθοσμίαν ἀπωσάμενοι τουτονὶ καὶ ἡμερίδην ἀγριώτερον πίνομεν ἐκ πίθου, κωνώπων χορῷ περιᾳδόμενον; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 12:26)

Synonyms

  1. a leek

Related

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

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