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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

  • ̓, ἄλλων ἐφεστώτων καὶ ἐπικροτούντων τοῖσ λιχανοῖσ δακτύλοισ, ὅ φησι ληκεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 272)
  • Φωσφόρον ἐν διατόνοισ καὶ παρυπάταισ καὶ λιχανοῖσ κινοῦντεσ, αὐτὸν τὸν ἥλιον ὡσ μέσην συνέχειν τὸ διὰ πασῶν ἀξιοῦσιν, ἀπέχοντα τῆσ μὲν γῆσ τὸ διὰ πέντε τῆσ δὲ τῶν ἀπλανῶν τὸ διὰ τεσσάρων. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 31 17:1)

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

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