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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

  • ὥσπερ ὄμφαξ ὀδοῦσι βλαβερὸν καὶ καπνὸσ ὄμμασιν, οὕτωσ παρανομία τοῖσ χρωμένοισ αὐτῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 10:27)
  • πρὸ τοῦ θερισμοῦ, ὅταν συντελεσθῇ ἄνθοσ καὶ ὄμφαξ ἐξανθήσῃ ἄνθοσ ὀμφακίζουσα, καὶ ἀφελεῖ τὰ βοτρύδια τὰ μικρὰ τοῖσ δρεπάνοισ καὶ τὰσ κληματίδασ ἀφελεῖ καὶ ἀποκόψει (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 18:5)
  • εἰή μήτ’ ὄμφαξ, μήτ’ ἀσταφίσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 203)
  • Ὄμφαξ οὐκ ἐπένευσασ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 3041)

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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