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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

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

  • ἐνδεδύκασι δὲ κιθῶνασ λινέουσ περὶ τὰ σκέλεα θυσανωτούσ, τοὺσ καλέουσι καλασίρισ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 81 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a long garment

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

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