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ἡμιέλλην

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμιέλλην ηνος

Structure: ἡμιελλην (Stem)

Sense

  1. a half-Greek

Declension

Third 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

  • τῶν γὰρ ἐκ τοῦ Πόντου βαρβάρων βασιλικόσ τισ ἄνθρωποσ κατά τι χρέοσ ἥκων ὡσ τὸν Νέρωνα ἐθεᾶτο μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων τὸν ὀρχηστὴν ἐκεῖνον οὕτω σαφῶσ ὀρχούμενον ὡσ καίτοι μὴ ἐπακούοντα τῶν ᾀδομένων ‐ ἡμιέλλην γάρ τισ ὢν ἐτύγχανεν ‐ συνεῖναι ἁπάντων. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 64:2)

Synonyms

  1. a half-Greek

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

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