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καλάσιρις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλάσιρις καλάσιριος

Structure: καλασιρι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: Egypt. word.

Sense

  1. a long garment

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative καλάσιρις καλασίριε καλασίριες
Genitive καλασίριος καλασιρίοιν καλασιρίων
Dative καλασίρῑ καλασιρίοιν καλασίρισιν*
Accusative καλάσιριν καλασίριε καλασίριας
Vocative καλάσιρι καλασίριε καλασίριες

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

  • ἐνῆσαν δὲ καὶ ἄλλων ἐθνέων ἄνδρεσ ἀναμεμιγμένοι, Φρυγῶν τε καὶ Θρηίκων καὶ Μυσῶν τε καὶ Παιόνων καὶ τῶν ἄλλων, ἐν δὲ καὶ Αἰθιόπων τε καὶ Αἰγυπτίων οἵ τε Ἑρμοτύβιεσ καὶ οἱ Καλασίριεσ καλεόμενοι μαχαιροφόροι, οἵ περ εἰσὶ Αἰγυπτίων μοῦνοι μάχιμοι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 32 2:2)
  • οἱ δὲ μάχιμοι αὐτῶν καλέονται μὲν Καλασίριέσ τε καὶ Ἑρμοτύβιεσ, ἐκ νομῶν δὲ τῶνδε εἰσί· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 164 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a long garment

Similar forms

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

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