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ὀνύχινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀνύχινος ὀνύχινη ὀνύχινον

Structure: ὀνυχιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o)/nuc II

Sense

  1. made of onyx

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative ὀνύχινος ὀνυχίνη ὀνύχινον
Genitive ὀνυχίνου ὀνυχίνης ὀνυχίνου
Dative ὀνυχίνῳ ὀνυχίνῃ ὀνυχίνῳ
Accusative ὀνύχινον ὀνυχίνην ὀνύχινον
Vocative ὀνύχινε ὀνυχίνη ὀνύχινον
DualN/A/V ὀνυχίνω ὀνυχίνᾱ ὀνυχίνω
G/D ὀνυχίνοιν ὀνυχίναιν ὀνυχίνοιν
PluralNominative ὀνύχινοι ὀνύχιναι ὀνύχινα
Genitive ὀνυχίνων ὀνυχινῶν ὀνυχίνων
Dative ὀνυχίνοις ὀνυχίναις ὀνυχίνοις
Accusative ὀνυχίνους ὀνυχίνᾱς ὀνύχινα
Vocative ὀνύχινοι ὀνύχιναι ὀνύχινα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ὀνύχινος ὀνυχίνου ὀνυχινώτερος ὀνυχινωτέρου ὀνυχινώτατος ὀνυχινωτάτου
Adverb ὀνυχίνως ὀνυχινώτερον ὀνυχινώτατα

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

  • "ἦσαν δὲ καὶ ὀνύχινοι σκύφοι καὶ συνδέσεισ τούτων μέχρι δικοτύλων καὶ Παναθηναικὰ μέγιστα, τὰ μὲν δίχοα, τὰ δὲ καὶ μείζονα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 89 1:1)
  • δικάζοντα δὲ πολλάκισ τετράρχαισ καὶ βασιλεῦσιν ἐπὶ βήματοσ δελτάρια τῶν ἐρωτικῶν ὀνύχινα καὶ κρυστάλλινα δέχεσθαι παρ’ αὐτῆσ καὶ ἀναγινώσκειν· (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 58 6:1)

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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