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κρεανομία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρεανομία

Structure: κρεανομι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a distribution of flesh

Declension

First 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

  • οὐκοῦν διελόμενοι τὴν κατηγορίαν, σὺ μὲν περὶ τῆσ κλοπῆσ ἤδη σύνειρε, ὁ Ἑρμῆσ δὲ τὴν κρεανομίαν καὶ τὴν ἀνθρωποποιίαν αἰτιάσεται· (Lucian, Prometheus, (no name) 5:4)
  • Ἑλλησπόντιοι δ’ ἐπεγχύτην ὀνομάζουσι τὸν οἰνοχόον καὶ τὴν κρεανομίαν κρεωδαισίαν, ὥσ φησι Δημήτριοσ ὁ Σκήψιοσ ἐν ἕκτῳ καὶ εἰκοστῷ τοῦ Τρωικοῦ διακόσμου, τοῖσ δὲ θεοῖσ οἰνοχοοῦσάν τινεσ ἱστοροῦσι τὴν Ἁρμονίαν, ὡσ Καπίτων ἱστορεῖ ὁ ἐποποιόσ, Ἀλεξανδρεὺσ δὲ γένοσ, ἐν δευτέρῳ Ἐρωτικῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 25 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a distribution of flesh

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

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