Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

κειρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κειρία

Structure: κειρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the cord or girth of a bedstead
  2. swathings, grave-clothes

Declension

First 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

  • ἐοίκεν οὖν κειρία ψυχομένη ἐπὶ μῆκοσ, ὑπεξαιρουμένων τῶν ἐπὶ πλέον ἐκτροπῶν. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 8:20)

Synonyms

  1. swathings

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

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