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λαῖφος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαῖφος λαῖφεος

Structure: λαιφο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a tattered garment, rags
  2. a piece of cloth or canvas, a sail

Declension

Third 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

  • καρπαλίμωσ δ’ Ἀχέροντα διεξεπέρησαν ἐρετμοῖσ, ἐκ δ’ ἔχεαν πίσυνοι ἀνέμῳ λίνα, πουλὺ δ’ ἐπιπρὸ λαιφέων πεπταμένων τέμνον πλόον εὐδιόωντεσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 15:13)

Synonyms

  1. a tattered garment

  2. a piece of cloth or canvas

Related

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

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