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λευκόϊον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

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’ ὡρ́αν 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 ὡρ́ιμον 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

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

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