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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

  • "τούτων ἁπάντων ἀκρίδασ ἀνταλλάσσομαι, κόγχων δὲ τὸν σέσιλον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 52162)
  • εἰ δὲ ἡ ἐκ τῶν κόγχων τροφὴ σπανίζει, καταφεύγουσιν ἐπὶ τὸν τῶν ἀκανθῶν σωρόν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 16 6:2)
  • μάλιστα δέ φησι ζήτησιν παρασχεῖν πῶσ ἐν δισχιλίοισ καὶ τρισχιλίοισ ἀπὸ θαλάττησ σταδίοισ κατὰ τὴν μεσόγαιαν ὁρᾶται πολλαχοῦ κόγχων καὶ ὀστρέων καὶ χηραμύδων πλῆθοσ καὶ λιμνοθάλατται, καθάπερ φησὶ περὶ τὸ ἱερὸν τοῦ Ἄμμωνοσ καὶ τὴν ἐπ’ αὐτῷ ὁδὸν τρισχιλίων σταδίων οὖσαν· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 8:1)

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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