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μοτός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μοτός μοτοῦ

Structure: μοτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. shredded linen, lint

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

  • Ἕλκοσ ἐν τῇ κεφαλῇ οὐ χρὴ τέγγειν οὐδενὶ, οὐδὲ οἴνῳ, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἥκιστα‧ οὐδὲ καταπλάσσειν, οὐδὲ μοτῷ τὴν ἰήσιν ποιέεσθαι, οὐδ’ ἐπιδεῖν χρὴ ἕλκοσ ἐν κεφαλῇ, ἢν μὴ ἐν τῷ μετώπῳ ᾖ τὸ ἕλκοσ, ἐν τῷ ψιλῷ τῶν τριχῶν, ἢ περὶ τὴν ὀφρὺν καὶ τὸν ὀφθαλμόν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 13.2)
  • Τάμνοντα δὲ χρὴ ἀναστεῖλαι τὴν σάρκα ἀπὸ τοῦ ὀστέου, ᾗ πρὸσ τῇ μήνιγγι καὶ πρὸσ τῷ ὀστέῳ πέφυκεν‧ ἔπειτα διαμοτῶσαι τὸ ἕλκοσ πᾶν μοτῷ, ὅστισ εὐρύτατον τὸ ἕλκοσ παρέξει ἐσ τὴν ὑστεραίην ξὺν ἐλαχίστῳ πόνῳ‧ μοτώσαντα δὲ καταπλάσματι χρῆσθαι, ὅσον ἂν χρόνον καὶ τῷ μοτῷ, μάζην ἐκ λεπτῶν ἀλφίτων ἐν ὄξει διαμάσσειν, ἢ ἕψειν καὶ γλίσχρην ποιέειν ὡσ μάλιστα. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 14.2)

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

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