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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ματτύη ματτύᾱ ματτύαι
Genitive ματτύης ματτύαιν ματτυῶν
Dative ματτύῃ ματτύαιν ματτύαις
Accusative ματτύην ματτύᾱ ματτύᾱς
Vocative ματτύη ματτύᾱ ματτύαι

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 Μόλπισ καὶ ματτύην φησὶ προσαγορεύεσθαι τὰ ἐπάικλα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 17 8:4)
  • τοσαῦτα καὶ τούτου κατακόψαντοσ οὐ μόνον τὰ προειρημένα ἀλλὰ καὶ ἡμᾶσ, ἄλλοσ ἐπεισῆλθεν τὴν ματτύην κομίζων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 831)
  • τὴν ἀναγκαίαν τροφὴν ἀκολάστωσ καὶ περιέργωσ μικρὸν παραγαγόντεσ τοὔνομα τῆσ μάζησ ματτύην ὠνόμαζον πᾶν τὸ πολυτελὲσ ἔδεσμα, τὸ δὲ ματτυάζειν τὸ παρασκευάζειν αὐτά, εἴτε ἰχθὺσ εἰή εἴτε ὄρνισ εἴτε λάχανον εἴτε ἱερεῖον εἴτε πεμμάτιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 83 3:1)
  • καὶ ὁ Ἀρτεμίδωροσ ἐν ταῖσ Ὀψαρτυτικαῖσ Γλώτταισ τὴν ματτύην ἀποφαίνει κοινὸν εἶναι πάντων ὄνομα τῶν πολυτελῶν ἐδεσμάτων,5 γράφων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 841)
  • πιεῖν τισ ἡμῖν ἐγχεάτω καὶ ματτύην ποιεῖτε θᾶττον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 84 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a dainty dish

Similar forms

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

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