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κάρδαμον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάρδαμον κάρδαμου

Structure: καρδαμ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. cress, its seed, cresses, sharp and stinging

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

  • ἐχθὲσ ἔφαγον κάρδαμα. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode45)
  • πάσχει δὲ ταὐτὸ τοῦτο καὶ τὰ κάρδαμα. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 7:9)
  • ἡ φροντὶσ ἕλκει τὴν ἰκμάδ’ ἐσ τὰ κάρδαμα; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 7:11)
  • ἀλλὰ τούτων μὲν τάχ’ ἡμῖν δώσετον καλὴν δίκην, οὐκέτ’ ἐσ μακρὰν ἵν’ εἰδῆθ’ οἱο͂́σ ἐστ’ ἀνδρῶν τρόποσ ὀξυθύμων καὶ δικαίων καὶ βλεπόντων κάρδαμα. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Choral, trochees 1:15)
  • κάρδαμα, σήσαμα, κήρυκεσ, ἅλεσ, πίνναι, λεπάδεσ, μύεσ, ὄστρεια, κτένεσ, ὄρκυνεσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 7 4:1)

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

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