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νάκη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νάκη

Structure: νακ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a wooly or hairy skin, a goatskin

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

  • πρῶτον μὲν ξίφοσ ὀξὺ περὶ στιβαροῖσ βάλετ’ ὤμοισ, ἀμφὶ δὲ χλαῖναν ἑέσσατ’ ἀλεξάνεμον, μάλα πυκνήν, ἂν δὲ νάκην ἕλετ’ αἰγὸσ ἐϋτρεφέοσ μεγάλοιο, εἵλετο δ’ ὀξὺν ἄκοντα, κυνῶν ἀλκτῆρα καὶ ἀνδρῶν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 14 48:4)

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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