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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

  • ὦ μῶρε μῶρε μὴ θεῶν κίνει φρένασ δεινάσ, ὅπωσ μή σου γένοσ πανώλεθρον Διὸσ μακέλλῃ πᾶν ἀναστρέψῃ Δίκη, λιγνὺσ δὲ σῶμα καὶ δόμων περιπτυχὰσ καταιθαλώσῃ σου Λικυμνίαισ βολαῖσ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 2:14)
  • ἀλλ’ εὖ νιν ἀσπάσασθε, καὶ γὰρ οὖν πρέπει Τροίαν κατασκάψαντα τοῦ δικηφόρου Διὸσ μακέλλῃ, τῇ κατείργασται πέδον. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode13)
  • εἴ δὲ αὖ δειλὸσ καὶ ἀνόητοσ καὶ ἀσελγὴσ καὶ παράνομοσ καὶ δι’ ὕβριν ταῦτα ἐπιχειρῶν, τοὐναντίον ἔμοιγε ἀσθενέστεροσ εἶναι δοκεῖ τῶν σφόδρα πενήτων καὶ μηδὲ ἕνα γῆσ κεκτημένων βῶλον, ὥστε διαθρύψαι μακέλλῃ τροφῆσ ἕνεκεν, . (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 38:1)

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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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