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λέπυρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λέπυρον λέπυρου

Structure: λεπυρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: le/pw

Sense

  1. a shell, husk, rind.

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λέπυρον λεπύρω λέπυρα
Genitive λεπύρου λεπύροιν λεπύρων
Dative λεπύρῳ λεπύροιν λεπύροις
Accusative λέπυρον λεπύρω λέπυρα
Vocative λέπυρον λεπύρω λέπυρα

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

  • ὡσ σπαρτίον τὸ κόκκινον χείλη σου, καὶ ἡ λαλιά σου ὡραία, ὡσ λέπυρον ροᾶσ μῆλόν σου ἐκτὸσ τῆσ σιωπήσεώσ σου. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 4:3)
  • ὡσ σπαρτίον τὸ κόκκινον χείλη σου καὶ ἡ λαλιά σου ὡραία, ὡσ λέπυρον τῆσ ροᾶσ μῆλόν σου ἐκτὸσ τῆσ σιωπήσεώσ σου. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 6:7)
  • "τοῦτο δ’ ἐστὶν οἱο͂ν κηρίον, ἀλλ’ οὐχ οὕτωσ γλαφυρόν, ὥσπερ ἂν εἰ ἐκ λεπύρων ἐρεβίνθων λευκῶν πολλὰ συμπαγείη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 363)

Synonyms

  1. a shell

Similar forms

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

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