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λευκόϊον?

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: leukoion

Principal Part: λευκόϊον λευκόϊου

Structure: λευκοϊ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. white-violet
  2. the wall-flower
  3. the snow-flake

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

  • πρῶτόν τε τῶν ἀνθέων ἐκφαίνεσθαί φησιν τὸ λευκόιον, ἅμα δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ τὸ φλόγινον καλούμενον τὸ ἄγριον, ἔπειτα νάρκισσον καὶ λείριον καὶ τῶν ἀγρίων ἀνεμώνης: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 273)
  • Ἱκέσιος δ ἐν δευτέρῳ περὶ Ὕλης τὸ λευκόιον φησι μεσότητά τινα ἔχειν ἐν τῷ στύφειν, πολὺ δ ἀρίστην εὐωδίαν καὶ δυναμένην τέρπειν, ἀλλὰ πρὸς ὀλίγιστον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 28 1:5)
  • "ἡ γὰρ Αἴγυπτος καὶ διὰ τὴν τοῦ περιέχοντος ἀέρος εὐκρασίαν καὶ διὰ τοὺς κηπεύοντας τὰ σπανίως καὶ καθ ὡρ´αν ἐνεστηκυῖαν ἐν ἑτέροις φυόμενα τόποις ἄφθονα γεννᾷ καὶ διὰ παντός, καὶ οὔτε ῥόδον οὔτε λευκόιον οὔτε ἄλλο ῥᾳδίως ἄνθος ἐκλιπεῖν οὐθὲν οὐδέποτ εἰώθεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:81)
  • ἐν μὲν γὰρ κρίνον ἡδὺ κατέπλεξεν Διόδωρον, ἐν δ Ἀσκληπιάδην, τὸ γλυκὺ λευκόιον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 2562)
  • ἤδη λευκόιον θάλλει, θάλλει δὲ φίλομβρος νάρκισσος, θάλλει δ οὐρεσίφοιτα κρίνα ἤδη δ ἡ φιλέραστος, ἐν ἄνθεσιν ὡρ´ιμον ἄνθος, Ζηνοφίλα Πειθοῦς ἡδὺ τέθηλε ῥόδον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1441)

Synonyms

  1. white-violet

  2. the wall-flower

  3. the snow-flake

Related

명사

형용사

동사

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

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