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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

  • πάντα τρόπον, ἐν κλίμακι δήσασ κρεμάσασ ὑστριχίδι μαστιγῶν, δέρων, στρεβλῶν, ἔτι δ’ ἐσ τὰσ ῥῖνασ ὄξοσ ἐγχέων, πλίνθουσ ἐπιτιθείσ, πάντα τἄλλα, πλὴν πράσῳ μὴ τύπτε τοῦτον μηδὲ γητείῳ νέῳ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, iambics15)
  • "μῦμα δὲ παντὸσ ἱερείου, καὶ ὄρνιθοσ δὲ χρὴ ποιεῖν τὰ ἁπαλὰ τῶν κρεῶν μικρὰ συντεμόντα καὶ τὰ σπλάγχνα καὶ τὸ ἔντερον καὶ τὸ αἷμα διαθρύψαντα καὶ ἀρτύσαντα ὄξει, τυρῷ ὀπτῷ, σιλφίῳ, κυμίνῳ, θύμῳ χλωρῷ καὶ ξηρῷ, θύμβρᾳ, κοριάννῳ χλωρῷ τε καὶ ξηρῷ, καὶ γητείῳ καὶ κρομμύῳ καθαρῷ πεφωσμένῳ ἢ μήκωνι καὶ σταφίδι ἢ μέλιτι καὶ ῥόασ ὀξείασ κόκκοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 823)

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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