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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κογχύλιον κογχυλίω κογχύλια
Genitive κογχυλίου κογχυλίοιν κογχυλίων
Dative κογχυλίῳ κογχυλίοιν κογχυλίοις
Accusative κογχύλιον κογχυλίω κογχύλια
Vocative κογχύλιον κογχυλίω κογχύλια

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

  • Διοκλῆσ δ’ ὁ Καρύστιοσ ἐν τοῖσ Ὑγιεινοῖσ κράτιστά φησιν εἶναι τῶν κογχυλίων πρὸσ διαχώρησιν καὶ οὔρησιν μύασ, ὄστρεα, κτένασ, χήμασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 321)
  • 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)
  • "τῶν δὲ στρόμβων καὶ χοιρίνων καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν κογχυλίων ποικίλαι αἱ ἰδέαι καὶ πολὺ διάφοροι τῶν παρ’ ἡμῖν γίνονται δὲ πορφύραι τε καὶ ὀστρέων πολὺ πλῆθοσ τῶν λοιπῶν ἓν δὲ ἴδιον ὃ καλοῦσιν ἐκεῖνοι βέρβερι, ἐξ οὗ ἡ μαργαρῖτισ λίθοσ γίνεται, αὕτη δ’ ἐστὶ πολυτελὴσ κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν καὶ πωλεῖται περὶ Πέρσασ τε καὶ τοὺσ ἄνω τόπουσ πρὸσ χρυσίον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 457)
  • τροφῇ δὲ χρῆται ἔστιν ὅτε καὶ τοῖσ τῶν κογχυλίων σαρκιδίοισ, τὰ ὄστρακα ἐκτὸσ τῶν θαλαμῶν ῥίπτων ὅθεν διαγινώσκουσιν οἱ θηρεύοντεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 101 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. a small kind of mussel or cockle

Related

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

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