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ἠχεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἠχεῖον ἠχεῖου

Structure: ἠχει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: h)=xos

Sense

  1. kettle-drum or gong

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

  • ἦν δὲ παραπλήσιοσ μὲν Δελφικῷ τρίποδι καὶ τοὔνομ’ ἐντεῦθεν ἔσχεν, τὴν δὲ χρῆσιν τριπλῆσ κιθάρασ παρείχετο, τῶν γὰρ ποδῶν ἑστώτων ἐπί τινοσ βάσεωσ εὐστρόφου, καθάπερ αἱ τῶν περιάκτων δίφρων κατασκευάζονται, θέσεισ, τὰσ μέσασ τρεῖσ χώρασ τὰσ ἀπὸ ποδὸσ ἐπὶ πόδα διεστώσασ ἐνέτεινε χορδαῖσ, ὑπερθεὶσ ἑκάστῃ πῆχυν καὶ κάτω προσαρμόσασ χορδοτόνια, καὶ τὸν ἐπάνω κόσμον κοινὸν τοῦ λέβητοσ καὶ τῶν παρηρτημένων ἠχείων ἀποδούσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:21)

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

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