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κύπειρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κύπειρον κύπειρου

Structure: κυπειρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. galingale

Declension

Second 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

  • ὅτι εἰσ τὸ πρόπομα καὶ ταῦτα ἐνεβάλλοντο, πέπερι, φυλλίσ, σμύρνα, κύπειρον, μύρον Αἰγύπτιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 731)
  • ἔνθ’ ἐπεὶ εὖ βοτάνησ ἐπεφόρβει βοῦσ ἐριμύκουσ καὶ τὰσ μὲν συνέλασσεν ἐσ αὔλιον ἀθρόασ οὔσασ, λωτὸν ἐρεπτομένασ ἠδ’ ἑρσήεντα κύπειρον· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 12:7)
  • λειμὼν γάρ σφιν ἔκειτο, μέγα στιβάδεσσιν ὄνειαρ, ἔνθεν βούτομον ὀξὺ βαθύν τ’ ἐτάμοντο κύπειρον. (Theocritus, Idylls, 9)
  • σὺ γὰρ πεδίοιο ἀνάσσεισ εὐρέοσ, ᾧ ἔνι μὲν λωτὸσ πολύσ, ἐν δὲ κύπειρον πυροί τε ζειαί τε ἰδ’ εὐρυφυὲσ κρῖ λευκόν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 64:9)
  • καίοντο πτελέαι τε καὶ ἰτέαι ἠδὲ μυρῖκαι, καίετο δὲ λωτόσ τε ἰδὲ θρύον ἠδὲ κύπειρον, τὰ περὶ καλὰ ῥέεθρα ἅλισ ποταμοῖο πεφύκει· (Homer, Iliad, Book 21 27:8)
  • ὁ δὲ πεποιηκὼσ τοὺσ εἰσ αὐτὸν ἀναφερομένουσ Μεταλλεῖσ φησιν ὑπ’ ἀναδενδράδων ἁπαλὰσ ἀσπαλάθουσ πατοῦντεσ ἐν λειμῶνι λωτοφόρῳ κύπειρόν τε δροσώδη κἀνθρύσκου μαλακῶν τ’ ἰών λείμακα καὶ τριφύλλου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 32 3:2)

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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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