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κόγχη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόγχη

Structure: κογχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a mussel or cockle
  2. the case round a seal

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κόγχη κόγχᾱ κόγχαι
Genitive κόγχης κόγχαιν κογχῶν
Dative κόγχῃ κόγχαιν κόγχαις
Accusative κόγχην κόγχᾱ κόγχᾱς
Vocative κόγχη κόγχᾱ κόγχαι

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

  • ἐπὶ πᾶσι δὲ τὴν Ἀφροδίτην δύο Τρίτωνεσ ἔφερον ἐπὶ κόγχησ κατακειμένην, ἄνθη παντοῖα ἐπιπάττουσαν τῇ νύμφῃ. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, zephyrus and notus, chapter 3 1:2)
  • διήκει δ’ ἐκ τούτου ἡ σὰρξ μέχρι μέσου τοῦ κόγχου οἱονεὶ ῥίζα, παρ’ ἣν ἡ μαργαρῖτισ γεννωμένη αὔξεται διὰ τοῦ στερεοῦ τῆσ κόγχησ καὶ τρέφεται ὅσον ἂν ᾖ προσπεφυκυῖα χρόνον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 46 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. a mussel or cockle

  2. the case round a seal

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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