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λυχνίον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυχνίον λυχνίου

Structure: λυχνι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: lu/xnos

Sense

  1. a lamp-stand

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λυχνίον λυχνίω λυχνία
Genitive λυχνίου λυχνίοιν λυχνίων
Dative λυχνίῳ λυχνίοιν λυχνίοις
Accusative λυχνίον λυχνίω λυχνία
Vocative λυχνίον λυχνίω λυχνία

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

  • τέλοσ δὲ ὁ Ἀλκιδάμασ ἀνατρέψασ τὸ λυχνίον σκότοσ μέγα ἐποίησε, καὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα, ὡσ τὸ εἰκόσ, μακρῷ χαλεπώτερον ἐγεγένητο· (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 46:1)
  • κότταβοσ τὸ λυχνίον ἐστί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 4 1:4)
  • τὸ δὲ καλούμενον κατακτὸν κοττάβιον τοιοῦτόν ἐστιν λυχνίον ἐστὶν ὑψηλόν, ἔχον τὸν μάνην καλούμενον, ἐφ’ ὃν τὴν καταβαλλομένην ἔδει πεσεῖν πλάστιγγα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 5 2:4)
  • λέγεται δὲ παρθένον τινὰ Βυζαντίαν ἐπιφανῶν γονέων, ὄνομα Κλεονίκην, ἐπ’ αἰσχύνῃ τοῦ Παυσανίου μεταπεμπομένου, τοὺσ μὲν γονεῖσ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ καὶ φόβου προέσθαι τὴν παῖδα, τὴν δὲ τῶν πρὸ τοῦ δωματίου δεηθεῖσαν ἀνελέσθαι τὸ φῶσ, διὰ σκότουσ καὶ σιωπῆσ τῇ κλίνῃ προσιοῦσαν ἤδη τοῦ Παυσανίου καθεύδοντοσ, ἐμπεσεῖν καὶ ἀνατρέψαι τὸ λυχνίον ἄκουσαν· (Plutarch, , chapter 6 4:1)
  • καὶ παρ’ αὐτὸν οἴκημα μέγα, οὗ βωμόσ ἐστι καὶ λυχνίον ἀμφότερα χρυσᾶ δύο τάλαντα τὴν ὁλκήν. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 220:2)

Synonyms

  1. a lamp-stand

Related

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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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