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μάκτρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάκτρα

Structure: μακτρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ma/ssw

Sense

  1. a kneading-trough

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μάκτρα μάκτρᾱ μάκτραι
Genitive μάκτρᾱς μάκτραιν μακτρῶν
Dative μάκτρᾱͅ μάκτραιν μάκτραις
Accusative μάκτρᾱν μάκτρᾱ μάκτρᾱς
Vocative μάκτρᾱ μάκτρᾱ μάκτραι

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

  • "ὁ δὲ βωλήτινοσ καλούμενοσ ἄρτοσ πλάττεται μὲν ὡσ βωλήτησ, καὶ ἀλείφεται ἡ μάκτρα ὑποπασσομένησ μήκωνοσ, ἐφ’ ᾗ ἐπιτίθεται ἡ ματερία, καὶ ἐν τῷ ζυμοῦσθαι οὐ κολλᾶται τῇ καρδόπῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 79 1:8)

Synonyms

  1. a kneading-trough

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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