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κίσηρις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κίσηρις κίσηρεως

Structure: κισηρι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. the pumice-stone

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

  • οἰηθείη δ’ ἄν τισ καὶ τὸν υἱὸν πολέμιον εἶναι ὥσπερ ἡ Μερόπη, καὶ ἐσφαιρῶσθαι τὸ λελογχωμένον δόρυ, ἢ τὸν λίθον κίσηριν εἶναι· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 3 23:1)
  • κάρκινά τε σπειροῦχα, λεάντειράν τε κίσηριν, καὶ τὰν ἁδυφαῆ πλινθίδα καλλαΐναν, μάζασ ἁνίκ’ ἔκυρσε τελωνιάδοσ φιλολίχνου, Πιερίσιν πενίασ ἄρμεν’ ἀνεκρέμασεν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 295 1:1)

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

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