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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

  • καὶ τῶν ἀδόξων δὲ τὰσ Πελωρίδασ κόγχασ τὰσ ἐκ Λιπάρασ μαινίδασ, τὴν Μαντινικὴν γογγυλίδα, τὰσ ἐκ Θηβῶν βουνιάδασ καὶ τὰ παρ’ Ἀσκραίοισ τεῦτλα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 6 2:2)
  • καὶ λέγει Μεγασθένησ, θηρεύεσθαι αὐτοῦ τὴν κόγχην δικτύοισι, νέμεσθαι δὲ κατὰ τωὐτὸ πολλὰσ κόγχασ, κατάπερ τὰσ μελίσσασ. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 8 11:1)
  • τούτων ὁ μὲν ἔχει σκόροδον, ὁ δ’ ἐχίνουσ δύο, ὁ δὲ θρυμματίδα γλυκεῖαν, ὁ δὲ κόγχασ δέκα, ὁ δ’ ἀντακαίου μικρόν, ἐν ὅσῳ δ’ ἐσθίω, ἕτεροσ ἐκεῖν’, ἐν ὅσῳ δ’ ἐκεῖνοσ, τοῦτ’ ἐγὼ ἠφάνισα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 8 1:2)
  • ῥωμαλεώτερα δὲ τῶν κογχυλίων φησὶν εἶναι ὁ Διοκλῆσ κόγχασ, πορφύρασ, κήρυκασ, περὶ δὲ τῶν κηρύκων ὁ Ἄρχιπποσ τάδε λέγει· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 32 1:3)
  • τὰσ δὲ κόγχασ ἔστιν εὑρεῖν λεγομένασ καὶ θηλυκῶσ καὶ ἀρσενικῶσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 331)

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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