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κυαμοφαγία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυαμοφαγία

Structure: κυαμοφαγι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: fagei=n

Sense

  1. the eating of beans, bean-diet

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

  • τότε δ’ οὖν κυάμουσ ἑψήσαντεσ, ὥσπερ παρ’ αὐτοῖσ νόμοσ ἐπειδὰν πόλεμον κατορθώσωσιν, εἱστιῶντο τὰ ἐπινίκια καὶ ἑορτὴν μεγάλην ἦγον μόνοσ δὲ αὐτῆσ οὐ μετεῖχε Πυθαγόρασ, ἀλλ’ ἄσιτοσ πόρρω ἐκαθέζετο μυσαττόμενοσ τὴν κυαμοφαγίαν. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 24:5)

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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