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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

  • ̔ μετὰ δὲ τὸ δεῖπνον εἰώθεν ἀεί τι παρά τινοσ κομίζεσθαι, ἐνίοτε δὲ καὶ παρὰ πλειόνων, παρ’ αὐτοῖσ κατ’ οἶκον ἠρτυμένη ματτύη,5 ὃ καλοῦσιν ἐπάικλον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 19 3:1)
  • ὠνομάσθη δὲ ἡ ματτύη, ὡσ μὲν ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ Ἀπολλόδωρόσ φησιν ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ τῶν Ἐτυμολογουμένων, ἀπὸ τοῦ μασᾶσθαι, ὥσπερ καὶ ἡ μαστίχη καὶ ἡ μάσταξ, ἡμεῖσ δέ φαμεν ἀπὸ τοῦ μάττειν, ἀφ’ οὗ καὶ ἡ μᾶζα αὐτὴ ὠνομάσθη καὶ ἡ παρὰ Κυπρίοισ καλουμένη μαγίσ, καὶ τὸ τρυφᾶν καθ’ ὑπερβολὴν ὑπερμαζᾶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 83 2:3)
  • εὖ γ’,3 ἄνδρεσ, εὖ σφόδρ’, ἀλλὰ μὴν τῇ ματτύῃ οὕτω διαθήσω τὰ μετὰ ταῦθ’ ὥστ’ οἰόμαι οὐδ’ αὐτὸν ἡμῖν τοῦτον· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 84 5:1)

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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