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ληκύθιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ληκύθιον ληκύθιου

Structure: ληκυθι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: lh/kuqos의 지소사,

Sense

  1. a small oil-flask

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

  • ποιεῖσ γὰρ οὕτωσ ὥστ’ ἐναρμόττειν ἅπαν, καὶ κῳδάριον καὶ ληκύθιον καὶ θύλακον, ἐν τοῖσ ἰαμβείοισι. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 1:40)
  • Αἴγυπτοσ, ὡσ ὁ πλεῖστοσ ἔσπαρται λόγοσ, ξὺν παισὶ πεντήκοντα ναυτίλῳ πλάτῃ Ἄργοσ κατασχών ‐ ληκύθιον ἀπώλεσεν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 2:1)
  • τουτὶ τί ἦν τὸ ληκύθιον; (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 2:2)
  • Διόνυσοσ, ὃσ θύρσοισι καὶ νεβρῶν δοραῖσ καθαπτὸσ ἐν πεύκαισι Παρνασσὸν κάτα πηδᾷ χορεύων ‐ ληκύθιον ἀπώλεσεν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 2:5)
  • ἢ γὰρ πεφυκὼσ ἐσθλὸσ οὐκ ἔχει βίον, ἢ δυσγενὴσ ὤν ‐ ληκύθιον ἀπώλεσεν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 2:10)

Synonyms

  1. a small oil-flask

Related

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

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