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οἰνών

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰνών οἰνῶνος

Structure: οἰνων (Stem)

Etym.: oi)=nos

Sense

  1. a wine-cellar

Declension

Third 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

  • τοῖσ δὲ πλείστοισ αὐτῶν ὑπάρχουσιν οἰνῶνεσ ἐγγὺσ τῆσ θαλάσσησ, εἰσ οὓσ δι’ ὀχετῶν τῶν οἴνων ἐκ τῶν ἀγρῶν ἀφειμένων τὸν μὲν ἔξω τῆσ χώρασ πιπράσκεσθαι, τὸν δὲ εἰσ τὴν πόλιν τοῖσ πλοίοισ διακομίζεσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 17 2:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ ἀπέβη, ἐκράτει τε τῆσ γῆσ καὶ ἐδῄου ἐξειργασμένην μὲν παγκάλωσ καὶ πεφυτευμένην τὴν χώραν, μεγαλοπρεπεῖσ δὲ οἰκήσεισ καὶ οἰνῶνασ κατεσκευασμένουσ ἐπὶ τῶν ἀγρῶν· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 2 8:1)
  • α ὅσ ἐστιν ἡδὺσ ἐν οἴνων διατριβαῖσ, ἐν τοῖσ ἑαυτοῦ ὀχυρώμασι καταλείψει ἀτιμίαν. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 12:12)
  • περὶ Ἰταλικῶν οἴνων φησὶν ὁ παρὰ τούτῳ τῷ σοφιστῇ Γαληνόσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 481)
  • "ὁ δὲ Στατανὸσ τῶν πρώτων ἐστὶν οἴνων, ἐμφερὴσ τῷ Φαλερίνῳ, κουφότεροσ, οὐ πληκτικόσ, ὁ Τιβουρτῖνοσ λεπτόσ, εὐδιάπνευστοσ, ἀκμάζων ἀπὸ ἐτῶν δέκα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 4813)
  • Μάγνητα δὲ μειλιχόδωρον καὶ Θάσιον, τῷ δὴ μήλων ἐπιδέδρομεν ὀδμή, τοῦτον ἐγὼ κρίνω πολὺ πάντων εἶναι ἄριστον τῶν ἄλλων οἴνων μετ’ ἀμύμονα Χῖον ἄλυπον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 53 1:2)
  • τῶν οἴνων ὁ μὲν λευκόσ, ὁ δὲ κιρρόσ, ὁ δὲ μέλασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 591)

Synonyms

  1. a wine-cellar

Related

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

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