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λήμη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λήμη

Structure: λημ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a humour that gathers in the corner of the eye, gum, rheum, eyesore, that dim the eyes

Declension

First 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

  • Ἢν γὰρ τὴν αὐγὴν φεύγωσιν, ἢ δακρύωσιν ἀπροαιρέτωσ, ἢ διαστρέφωνται, ἢ ὁ ἕτεροσ τοῦ ἑτέρου ἐλάσσων γίγνηται, ἢ τὰ λευκὰ ἐρυθρὰ ἴσχωσιν, ἢ πελιὰ, ἢ φλέβια μέλανα ἐν ἑωυτέοισιν ἔχωσιν, ἢ λῆμαι φαίνωνται περὶ τὰσ ὄψιασ, ἢ καὶ ἐναιωρεύμενοι, ἢ ἐξίσχοντεσ, ἢ ἔγκοιλοι ἰσχυρῶσ γιγνόμενοι, ἢ αἱ ὄψιεσ αὐχμῶσαι καὶ ἀλαμπέεσ, ἢ τὸ χρῶμα τοῦ ξύμπαντοσ προσώπου ἠλλοιωμένον ᾖ, ταῦτα πάντα κακὰ νομίζειν καὶ ὀλέθρια εἶναι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., PROGNWSTIKON, 2.8)

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

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