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ὀλέκρανον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀλέκρανον ὀλέκρανου

Structure: ὀλεκραν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: attic for w)le/kranon, Ar.

Sense

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

  • ὅστισ δὲ πόλεμον μᾶλλον εἶναι βούλεται μηδέποτε παύσασθ’ αὐτὸν ὦ Διόνυσ’ ἄναξ ἐκ τῶν ὀλεκράνων ἀκίδασ ἐξαιρούμενον. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, iambics6)
  • ξυμπαθὴσ γὰρ καὶ ἥδε γίγνεται παρ’ αὐτέην ἐπ’ ἀριστερὰ κειμένη, ὡσ τῆσ ἐπὶ τῷ παντὶ διαπνοῆσ οὐδὲν ἐπικουφιζούσησ, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ τὸ δέρμα μαλθα· ζούσησ· ξηρὸν δὲ τόδε καὶ Ῥυσὸν καὶ τρηχύ· καὶ ἐπὶ δὲ μᾶλλον ἐν τοῖσι ἐξίσχουσι ὀστώδεσι· οἱο͂ν ὀλεκράνῳ, γούνασι, ἢ κονδύλοισι · ὕπνοι ταραχώδεεσ , κοιλίη τοῖσ μὲν οὐδὲν ἐκδιδοῖ, τοῖσ δὲ σμικρὸν, δριμὺ, χολῶδεσ · οὖρα ξανθὰ, δακνώδεα· τὴν γνώμην οὐ παράφοροιμὲν, νωθροὶ δὲ καὶ μαρασμώδεεσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 179)

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

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