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ὄμφαξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄμφαξ ὄμφακος

Structure: ὀμφακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. an unripe grape

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

  • "τοῦ θέρουσ ἀντὶ τοῦ ὄξουσ τῆσ ὄμφακοσ ἐμβαλὼν εἰσ τὸν ζωμὸν ὡσ ἔχει τοὺσ βότρυσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 84 1:3)
  • ὅταν δὲ τεύχῃ Ζεὺσ ἀπ’ ὄμφακοσ πικρᾶσ οἶνον, τότ’ ἤδη ψῦχοσ ἐν δόμοισ πέλει, ἀνδρὸσ τελείου δῶμ’ ἐπιστρωφωμένου. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 12:9)
  • Τέγγειν δὲ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐσ ἔμψυξιν, λίπαϊ ἐλαίησ ὄμφακοσ τετριμμένησ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 41)
  • ἢν δὲ τὸ ἧπαρ τὴν πεῖσιν καὶ τὴν ὀδύνην ἴσχῃ, ἔρια μὲν ἔστω οἰσύπῳ πιναρὰ ἀπὸ τῆσ ὀί̈οσ· ἔλαιον δὲ τὸ ἀπὸ τῆσ ὄμφακοσ, ἢ Ῥόδινον · μίσγειν δὲ χρὴ σίραιον Ἑλληνικὸν, ἢ Κρῆτα, καὶ ἐνεψεῖν μελίλωτον, μίξαντά τε ἐσ ἕνα χυλὸν τὰ πάντα καταιονεῖν τὸ ἧπαρ· σπληνὶ δὲ τὸ ἔλαιον σὺν ὄξεϊ ἔστω, ἢ εἰ μέζων ἢ πρὶν δοκέοι, ὀξύκρητον, καὶ ἀντὶ ἐρίων σπογγιὴ ἁπαλή. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 60)
  • τέγξιεσ ἐπὶ τοῖσι φλεγμαίνουσι, τὰ πρῶτα μὲν στύφουσαι, ὅκωσ ἐσ παλίρροιαν ἰώσιν αἱ ὗλαι· ἔριά τ’ ὦν πιναρὰ ξὺν οἰσύπῳ, δευθέντα οἴνῳ καὶ ἀλείφατι τῷ ἀπὸ τῆσ ἐλαίησ τῆσ ὄμφακοσ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 302)

Synonyms

  1. an unripe grape

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

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