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κνῆστις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κνῆστις κνῆστεως

Structure: κνηστι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kna/w

Sense

  1. a knife for scraping

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κνῆστις κνήστει κνήστεις
Genitive κνήστεως κνήστοιν κνήστεων
Dative κνήστει κνήστοιν κνήστεσιν*
Accusative κνῆστιν κνήστει κνήστεις
Vocative κνῆστι κνήστει κνήστεις

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

  • πὰρ δὲ δέπασ περικαλλέσ, ὃ οἴκοθεν ἦγ’ ὁ γεραιόσ ἐν τῷ ῥά σφι κύκησε γυνὴ εἰκυῖα θεῇσιν οἴνῳ Πραμνείῳ, ἐπὶ δ’ αἴγειον κνῆ τυρὸν κνήστι χαλκείῃ, ἐπὶ δ’ ἄλφιτα λευκὰ πάλυνεν πινέμεναι δ’ ἐκέλευεν, ἐπεὶ ῥ’ ὥπλισσε κυκεῶ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 83 2:1)
  • ἐν τῷ ῥά σφι κύκησε γυνὴ ἐϊκυῖα θεῇσιν οἴνῳ Πραμνείῳ, ἐπὶ δ’ αἴγειον κνῆ τυρὸν κνήστι χαλκείῃ, ἐπὶ δ’ ἄλφιτα λευκὰ πάλυνε, πινέμεναι δ’ ἐκέλευσεν, ἐπεί ῥ’ ὥπλισσε κυκειῶ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 61:8)

Synonyms

  1. a knife for scraping

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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