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λυχνεών

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυχνεών λυχνεῶνος

Structure: λυχνεων (Stem)

Etym.: lu/xnos

Sense

  1. a place to keep lamps in

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λυχνεών λυχνεῶνε λυχνεῶνες
Genitive λυχνεῶνος λυχνεώνοιν λυχνεώνων
Dative λυχνεῶνι λυχνεώνοιν λυχνεῶσιν*
Accusative λυχνεῶνα λυχνεῶνε λυχνεῶνας
Vocative λυχνεών λυχνεῶνε λυχνεῶνες

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

  • οἰκήσεισ αὐτοῖσ καὶ λυχνεῶνεσ ἰδίᾳ ἑκάστῳ πεποίηντο, καὶ αὐτοὶ ὀνόματα εἶχον, ὥσπερ οἱ ἄνθρωποι, καὶ φωνὴν προϊεμένων ἠκούομεν, καὶ οὐδὲν ἡμᾶσ ἠδίκουν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπὶ ξένια ἐκάλουν ἡμεῖσ ὅμωσ ἐφοβούμεθα, καὶ οὔτε δειπνῆσαι οὔτε ὑπνῶσαί τισ ἡμῶν ἐτόλμησεν. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 29:5)

Synonyms

  1. a place to keep lamps in

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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