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λοφεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: λοφεῖον λοφεῖου

Structure: λοφει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: lo/fos

Sense

  1. a crest-case, any case

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λοφεῖον λοφείω λοφεῖα
Genitive λοφείου λοφείοιν λοφείων
Dative λοφείῳ λοφείοιν λοφείοις
Accusative λοφεῖον λοφείω λοφεῖα
Vocative λοφεῖον λοφείω λοφεῖα

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

  • τὸ λοφεῖον ἐξένεγκε τῶν τριῶν λόφων. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode 1:17)
  • γυναῖκα φαρμακίδ’ εἰ πριάμενοσ Θετταλὴν καθέλοιμι νύκτωρ τὴν σελήνην, εἶτα δὴ αὐτὴν καθείρξαιμ’ ἐσ λοφεῖον στρογγύλον, ὥσπερ κάτοπτρον, κᾆτα τηροίην ἔχων ‐ τί δῆτα τοῦτ’ ἂν ὠφελήσειέν σ’; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:22)

Similar forms

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

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