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ματτύη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ματτύη

Structure: ματτυ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a dainty dish

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

  • κωμάσαι πρὸσ τὴν Ταναγρικὴν δεῖ γάρ, ἵν’ ἐκεῖ κατακλιθεὶσ ἐπιδορπίσηται τὰσ ὀνείασ ματτύασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 46 3:10)
  • ἐξὸν ἀποσάττεσθαι δ’ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν, ποιοῦντα καὶ διδόντα ματτύασ ἐκεῖ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 84 6:4)
  • Μόλπισ δ’ ὁ Λάκων τὰ παρὰ τοῖσ Σπαρτιάταισ ἐπαίκλεια, ὅ σημαίνει τὰσ ἐπιδειπνίδασ, ματτύασ φησὶ λέγεσθαι παρὰ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 84 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. a dainty dish

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

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