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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

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

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

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