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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

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

  • τὼσ Λαρισσαίωσ βουγάστορασ ἑψητῆρασ, καὶ χύτρωσ, καὶ τὰν εὐρυχαδῆ κύλικα, καὶ τὰν εὐχάλκωτον ἐύγναμπτόν τε κρεάγραν, καὶ κνῆστιν, καὶ τὰν ἐτνοδόνον τορύναν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 3052)

Synonyms

  1. a knife for scraping

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

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