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κινάβρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κινάβρα

Structure: κιναβρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the rank smell of a he-goat

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κινάβρα κινάβρᾱ κινάβραι
Genitive κινάβρᾱς κινάβραιν κιναβρῶν
Dative κινάβρᾱͅ κινάβραιν κινάβραις
Accusative κινάβρᾱν κινάβρᾱ κινάβρᾱς
Vocative κινάβρᾱ κινάβρᾱ κινάβραι

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

  • τοιοῦτοσ δὲ οἱο͂σ ὁ Κύκλωψ ἐστί, κινάβρασ ἀπόζων ὥσπερ τράγοσ, ὠμοφάγοσ, ὥσ φασι, καὶ σιτούμενοσ τοὺσ ἐπιδημοῦντασ τῶν ξένων, σοὶ γένοιτο καὶ σὺ ἀντερῴησ αὐτοῦ. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, doris and galataea, chapter 55)
  • ὅμωσ δὲ δὶσ ἢ τρὶσ τοῦ ἔτουσ ἀνιόντεσ ἐπιλεξάμενοι τράγον ἔνορχην θύουσί μοι πολλῆσ τῆσ κινάβρασ ἀπόζοντα, εἶτ’ εὐωχοῦνται τὰ κρέα, ποιησάμενοί με τῆσ εὐφροσύνησ μάρτυρα καὶ ψιλῷ τιμήσαντεσ τῷ κρότῳ. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 10:10)
  • ἐχρῆν Χαιρέαν καταλείψασαν παραδέξασθαι τὸν ἐργάτην ἐκεῖνον κινάβρασ ἀπόζοντα; (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:7)

Synonyms

  1. the rank smell of a he-goat

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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