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μελαντηρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μελαντηρία

Structure: μελαντηρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a black dye

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

  • ἐγὼ δὲ ἅτε μηδὲν ἔχων ἐνέχυρον ἐν τῷ βίῳ, οὐκ ἀγρόν, οὐ συνοικίαν, οὐ χρυσόν, οὐ σκεῦοσ, οὐ δόξαν, οὐκ εἰκόνασ, εἰκότωσ εὔζωνοσ ἦν, κἀπειδὴ μόνον ἡ Ἄτροποσ ἔνευσέ μοι, ἄσμενοσ ἀπορρίψασ τὴν σμίλην καὶ τὸ κάττυμα ‐ κρηπῖδα γάρ τινα ἐν ταῖν χεροῖν εἶχον ‐ ἀναπηδήσασ εὐθὺσ ἀνυπόδητοσ οὐδὲ τὴν μελαντηρίαν ἀπονιψάμενοσ εἱπόμην, μᾶλλον δὲ ἡγούμην, ἐσ τὸ πρόσω ὁρῶν οὐδὲν γάρ με τῶν κατόπιν ἐπέστρεφε καὶ μετεκάλει. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 14:14)

Synonyms

  1. a black dye

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

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