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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

  • διάπυροσ γὰρ οὖσ1’ ἔτι ἕλξει δι’ αὑτῆσ νοτίδα καὶ ζυμουμένη ὥσπερ κίσηρισ λήψεται διεξόδουσ σομφάσ, δι’ ὧν τὴν ὑγρασίαν ἐκδέξεται τὰ κρεᾴδι’ ἔσται τ’ οὐκ ἀπεξηραμμένα, ἔγχυλα δ’ ἀτρεμεὶ καὶ δροσώδη τὴν σχέσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 30 2:3)
  • ’ τούτων γάρ ἐστι τὸ μὲν νάρθηξ, τὸ δὲ νυκτερίσ, τὸ δὲ εὐνοῦχοσ, τὸ δὲ κίσηρισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 76 1:3)

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

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