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λειχήν

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λειχήν λειχῆνος

Structure: λειχην (Stem)

Sense

  1. a tree-moss, lichen, a lichenlike eruption, canker, scurvy, blight

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

  • τυφλὸν ἢ συντετριμμένον ἢ γλωσσότμητον ἢ μυρμηκιῶντα ἢ ψωραγριῶντα ἢ λειχῆνασ ἔχοντα, οὐ προσάξουσι ταῦτα τῷ Κυρίῳ. καὶ εἰσ κάρπωσιν οὐ δώσετε ἀπ̓ αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον τῷ Κυρίῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 22:22)
  • τὰ μὲν γὰρ ἐκ γῆσ δυσφρόνων μηνίματα βροτοῖσ πιφαύσκων εἶπε, τὰσ δ’ αἰνῶν νόσουσ, σαρκῶν ἐπαμβατῆρασ ἀγρίαισ γνάθοισ λειχῆνασ ἐξέσθοντασ ἀρχαίαν φύσιν· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 12:6)
  • ἀλφοὺσ δὲ καὶ λεύκασ καὶ λειχῆνασ ἰᾶται τὸ ἐντεῦθεν λουτρόν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 3 38:11)

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

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