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μάργαρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: μάργαρον μάργαρου

Structure: μαργαρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: = margari/ths, Anacreont.

Sense

Declension

Second 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

  • μάργαρα σῆσ χροιῆσ ἀπολείπεται, οὐδὲ κομίζει χρυσὸσ ἀπεκτήτου σῆσ τριχὸσ ἀγλαϊήν Ἰνδῴη δ’ ὑάκινθοσ ἔχει χάριν αἴθοποσ αἴγλησ, ἀλλὰ τεῶν λογάδων πολλὸν ἀφαυροτέρην· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2702)
  • τοῦτο μὲν γὰρ τὰ μάργαρα ἀπόλλυσθαι πέφυκεν ὑπὸ τοῦ ὄξουσ, τοῦτο δὲ τὸν ἀδάμαντα λίθων ὄντα ἰσχυρότατον τοῦ τράγου κατατήκει τὸ αἷμα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 18 8:2)

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

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