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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

  • "καὶ γὰρ αὐτοὶ τοῦτον τὸν τρόπον ἔζων, ὥστε τοὺσ μὲν νέουσ ἐν τοῖσ αὐλητριδίοισ καὶ παρὰ ταῖσ ἑταίραισ διατρίβειν, τοὺσ δὲ μικρὸν ἐκείνων πρεσβυτέρουσ ἐν πότοισ καὶ κύβοισ καὶ ταῖσ τοιαύταισ ἀσωτίαισ, τὸν δὲ δῆμον ἅπαντα πλείω καταναλίσκειν εἰσ τὰσ κοινὰσ ἑστιάσεισ καὶ κρεανομίασ ἤπερ εἰσ τὴν τῆσ πόλεωσ διοίκησιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:193)
  • σκηνὴν μὲν γὰρ αὐτῷ Περσικὴν ἔπησσον Ἐφέσιοι, τροφὴν δὲ τοῖσ ἵπποισ αὐτοῦ Χῖοι παρεῖχον, ἱερεῖα δὲ παρίστασαν εἰσ τὰσ θυσίασ καὶ κρεανομίασ Κυζικηνοί, Λέσβιοι δὲ οἶνον παρεῖχον καὶ τὰ ἄλλα τὰ πρὸσ τὴν καθ’ ἡμέραν δίαιταν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 47 2:1)

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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