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λυχνίτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυχνίτης λυχνίτου

Structure: λυχνιτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: lu/xnos

Sense

  1. a precious stone of a red colour

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λυχνίτης λυχνίτᾱ λυχνίται
Genitive λυχνίτου λυχνίταιν λυχνιτῶν
Dative λυχνίτῃ λυχνίταιν λυχνίταις
Accusative λυχνίτην λυχνίτᾱ λυχνίτᾱς
Vocative λυχνίτα λυχνίτᾱ λυχνίται

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

  • ἐν μὲν οὖν τῇ παρορείῳ λίθουσ εὑρίσκεσθαί φασι τοὺσ λυχνίτασ καὶ καρχηδονίουσ λεγομένουσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 22:7)

Synonyms

  1. a precious stone of a red colour

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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