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λεπάς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λεπάς λεπάδος

Structure: λεπαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a limpet

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

  • κάρδαμα, σήσαμα, κήρυκεσ, ἅλεσ, πίνναι, λεπάδεσ, μύεσ, ὄστρεια, κτένεσ, ὄρκυνεσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 7 4:1)
  • κοχλιῶδεσ δὲ ὂν τὸ ὄστρεον προσέχεται ταῖσ πέτραισ ὥσπερ αἱ λεπάδεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 31 3:2)
  • "πάντα δὲ τὰ ὀστρακώδη γίνεται καὶ ἐν τῇ ἰλύι, ἐν μὲν τῇ βορβορώδει τὰ ὄστρεα, ἐν δὲ τῇ ἀμμώδει κόγχαι καὶ τὰ ῥηθέντα, περὶ δὲ τὰσ σήραγγασ τῶν πετρῶν τήθεα καὶ βάλανοι καὶ τὰ ἐπιπολάζοντα, οἱο͂ν λεπάδεσ καὶ νηρῖται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 38 2:2)

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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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