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κρέμβαλα

Irregular declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρέμβαλα

Sense

  1. rattling instruments, castanets.

Examples

  • ` Ἦν γὰρ δή τινα καὶ χωρὶσ τῶν ἐμφυσωμένων καὶ χορδαῖσ διειλημμένων ἕτερα ψόφου μόνον παρασκευαστικά, καθάπερ τὰ κρέμβαλα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 391)
  • "ἀλλὰ χρυσοφάεννα κρέμβαλα χαλκοπάραα χερσίν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. rattling instruments

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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