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καλάμινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλάμινος καλάμινη καλάμινον

Structure: καλαμιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ka/lamos

Sense

  1. made of reed
  2. made of cane

Examples

  • ὁ δὲ καλάμινοσ αὐλὸσ τιτύρινοσ καλεῖται παρὰ τοῖσ ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ Δωριεῦσιν, ὡσ Ἀρτεμίδωροσ ἱστορεῖ ὁ Ἀριστοφάνειοσ ἐν β περὶ Δωρίδοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 802)

Synonyms

  1. made of reed

  2. made of cane

Related

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

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