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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

  • σὺ δέ, ὦ κακέ, οὐ Ληκυθίων οὑμὸσ δραπέτησ τυγχάνεισ οὐ μὲν οὖν ἄλλοσ. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 32:1)
  • καὶ Ληκυθίων φιλοσοφεῖ. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 32:4)
  • Καὶ τὸ ὅλον δὲ τῶν μικρολόγων καὶ τὰσ ἀργυροθήκασ ἔστιν ἰδεῖν εὐρωτιώσασ καὶ τὰσ κλεῖσ ἰωμένασ, καὶ αὐτοὺσ δὲ φοροῦντασ ἐλάττω τῶν μικρῶν τὰ ἱμάτια, καὶ ἐκ ληκυθίων μικρῶν πάνυ ἀλειφομένουσ, καὶ ἐν χρῷ κειρομένουσ, καὶ τὸ μέσον τῆσ ἡμέρασ ὑποδουμένουσ, καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ γναφεῖσ διατεινομένουσ, ὅπωσ τὸ ἱμάτιον αὐτοῖσ ἕξει πολλὴν γῆν, ἵνα μὴ ῥυπαίνηται ταχύ. (Theophrastus, Characters, 14:1)

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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