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μαλάχη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μαλάχη

Structure: μαλαχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from mala/ssw

Sense

  1. mallow

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

  • "Ἕρμιπποσ δ’ ὁ Καλλιμάχειοσ καὶ εἰσ τὴν καλουμένην φησὶν ἄλιμον προσέτι τε ἄδιψον ἐμβάλλεσθαι τὴν μαλάχην οὖσαν χρησιμωτάτην· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5214)
  • ’προχειρισάμενοσ δὲ τὴν μαλάχην πολλὰ ηὐχόμην αὐτῇ διαφυγεῖν ἐκ τῶν παρόντων. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 46:6)
  • "θαυμάζω δέ σου τὸν ξένον ὦ Σόλων εἰ Δηλίοισ ἔναγχοσ ποιησάμενοσ τὸν μέγαν καθαρμὸν οὐχ ἱστόρησε παρ’ αὐτοῖσ εἰσ τὸ ἱερὸν κομιζόμενα τῆσ πρώτησ ὑπομνήματα τροφῆσ καὶ δείγματα μετ’ ἄλλων εὐτελῶν καὶ αὐτοφυῶν μαλάχην καὶ ἀνθέρικον, ὧν εἰκόσ ἐστι καὶ τὸν Ἡσίοδον προξενεῖν ἡμῖν τὴν λιτότητα καὶ τὴν ἀφέλειαν. (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 14 10:5)
  • οὐ θρύον, οὐ μαλάχην ἄνεμόσ ποτε, τὰσ δὲ μεγίστασ ἢ δρύασ ἢ πλατάνουσ οἶδε χαμαὶ κατάγειν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 122 1:1)
  • Τούτουσ δὲ χρὴ δειπνέειν ἔλασσον ἢ μεμαθήκασι, καὶ ὑγροτέρην μᾶζαν ἀντὶ ἄρτου, καὶ λαχάνων λάπαθον, ἢ μαλάχην, ἢ πτισάνην, ἢ σεῦτλα‧ πίνειν δὲ κατὰ τὸ σιτίον οἶνον, ὁκόσον ξύμμετρον, καὶ ὑδαρέστερον, καὶ ἀπὸ δείπνου περιπατῆσαι ὀλίγον, ἑώσ οὖρα καταδράμῃ καὶ οὐρήσῃ‧ χρεέσθω δὲ καὶ ἰχθύσιν ἑφθοῖσιν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 18.6)

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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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