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μάκελλα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάκελλα μάκελλης

Structure: μακελλ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: mi/a, ke/llw, as di/kella from di/s, ke/llw.

Sense

  1. a pick-axe with one point

Declension

First 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

  • "διὰ τί τὰ κρεοπώλια ’ μάκελλα ’ καὶ ’ μακέλλασ ’ καλοῦσι; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 541)
  • ἆ καλὸν αὐτοπόνητον ἐν αἰθέρι ῥεῦμα μελισσῶν, κἄπλαστοι χειρῶν αὐτοπαγεῖσ θαλάμαι, προίκιοσ ἀνθρώπων βιότῳ χάρισ, οὐχὶ μακέλλασ, οὐ βοόσ, οὐ γαμψῶν δευομένα δρεπάνων, γαυλοῦ δὲ σμικροῖο, τόθι γλυκὺ νᾶμα μέλισσα πηγάζει σκήνευσ δαψιλὲσ ἐξ ὀλίγου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 4041)

Related

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

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