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λιχανός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιχανός λιχανόν

Structure: λιχαν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: lei/xw

Sense

  1. the fore-finger, in licking up

Declension

First/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

  • Ἔπειτα δὲ ἐσ ταῦτα ἰητρὸσ οὐδεὶσ ἄλλοσ ἐστὶ τοιοῦτοσ, εἰ ἐθέλοι καὶ μελετᾷν καὶ τολμᾷν, ὡσ οἱ δάκτυλοι αὐτοῦ οἱ λιχανοί‧ οὗτοι γὰρ κατὰ φύσιν μάλιστά εἰσιν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 37.6)

Related

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

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