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κήπευμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κήπευμα κήπευματος

Structure: κηπευματ (Stem)

Etym.: khpeu/w

Sense

  1. a garden-flower

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κήπευμα κηπεύματε κηπεύματα
Genitive κηπεύματος κηπευμάτοιν κηπευμάτων
Dative κηπεύματι κηπευμάτοιν κηπεύμασιν*
Accusative κήπευμα κηπεύματε κηπεύματα
Vocative κήπευμα κηπεύματε κηπεύματα

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

  • ἠρινά τε βοσκόμεθα παρθένια λευκότροφα μύρτα Χαρίτων τε κηπεύματα. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, antistrophe 15)
  • ἀφαιροῦντεσ γὰρ τῶν ῥάβδων τὰσ λεπτοτάτασ καὶ διαπλέξαντεσ δικτύου τρόπῳ φυτεύουσιν κύκλῳ τῶν κηπευμάτων ι καὶ ταῦτα συμπλεκόμενα περιβόλου παρέχεται δυσπάροδον ἀσφάλειαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 29 3:2)
  • χωρὶσ δὲ τούτων εὐύδροσ τ’ ἐστὶ καθ’ ὑπερβολήν, ποταμοῦ μείζονοσ εἰσ αὐτὸν ἐμβάλλοντοσ, καὶ κατὰ μέσον ἔχει νῆσον εὐύδρον καὶ δυναμένην ἔχειν κηπεύματα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 44 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. a garden-flower

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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