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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

  • μᾶλλον μὲν οὖν φθεγξόμεσθ’, εἰ δή ποτ’ εὐηλίοισ ἐν ἁμέραισιν ἡλάμεσθα διὰ κυπείρου καὶ φλέω, χαίροντεσ ᾠδῆσ πολυκολύμβοισι μέλεσιν, ἢ Διὸσ φεύγοντεσ ὄμβρον ἔνυδρον ἐν βυθῷ χορείαν αἰόλαν ἐφθεγξάμεσθα πομφολυγοπαφλάσμασιν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue, trochees 1:10)
  • τὸ δὲ κῦφι μῖγμα μὲν ἑκκαίδεκα μερῶν συντιθεμένων ἐστί, μέλιτοσ καὶ οἴνου καὶ σταφίδοσ καὶ κυπείρου, ῥητίνησ; (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 80 1:1)

Related

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

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