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λιγνῡ́ς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιγνῡ́ς λιγνύος

Structure: λιγνυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. thick smoke mixed with flame, murky fire (such as is made by burning resinous substances)
  2. Strabo, Geography 6.2.11
  3. soot

Declension

Third 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

  • ὦ μῶρε μῶρε μὴ θεῶν κίνει φρένασ δεινάσ, ὅπωσ μή σου γένοσ πανώλεθρον Διὸσ μακέλλῃ πᾶν ἀναστρέψῃ Δίκη, λιγνὺσ δὲ σῶμα καὶ δόμων περιπτυχὰσ καταιθαλώσῃ σου Λικυμνίαισ βολαῖσ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 2:14)
  • λιγνὺσ καὶ ἀναθυμίασισ. (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 10 2:1)
  • σὲ δ’ ὑπὲρ διλόφου πέτρασ στέροψ ὄπωπε λιγνύσ, ἔνθα Κωρύκιαι στείχουσι νύμφαι Βακχίδεσ, Κασταλίασ τε νᾶμα. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 11)
  • αἱ δ’ ἄρ’ ὑπὸ τρόπιδι στιβαρῇ στενάχοντο φάλαγγεσ τριβόμεναι περὶ δέ σφιν ἀιδνὴ κήκιε λιγνὺσ βριθοσύνῃ, κατόλισθε δ’ ἔσω ἁλόσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 7:42)
  • θυέων δ’ ἀποϝηλόθι κήκιε λιγνύσ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 19:12)

Synonyms

  1. Strabo

  2. soot

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