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κογχύλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κογχύλιον κογχύλιου

Structure: κογχυλι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: kogxu/lh의 지소사

Sense

  1. a small kind of mussel or cockle
  2. its shell, any bivalve-shell

Declension

Second 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

  • σωλῆνέσ θην τοῦτοί γα γλυκύκρεον κογχύλιον, χηρᾶν γυναικῶν λίχνευμα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 32 3:4)
  • "ὅθεν αἱ μήκωνεσ αὐτῶν πρὸσ μὲν τὰσ τῶν στομάχων εὐτονίασ οὐκ εὐθετοῦσι πρὸσ δὲ τὴν τῆσ κοιλίασ ἀσθένειαν χρήσιμοι, τροφιμώτεραι δὲ τούτων εἰσὶ καὶ ἀπολαυστικώτεραι αἱ τῆσ πορφύρασ μήκωνεσ, πλὴν σκιλλωδέστεραι ὑπάρχουσι καὶ γὰρ ὅλον τὸ κογχύλιον τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν, ἴδιον δὲ καὶ ταύταισ καὶ τοῖσ σωλῆσι παρέπεται τὸ ἑψομέναισ παχὺν ποιεῖν τὸν ζωμόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 345)

Synonyms

  1. a small kind of mussel or cockle

Related

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

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