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ὁρμιά

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁρμιά

Structure: ὁρμι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: o(/rmos

Sense

  1. a fishing-line of horsehair

Declension

First 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

  • ἐγγύθι δ’ αὐτοῖν κεῖτο τὰ ταῖν χειροῖν ἀθλήματα, τοὶ καλαθίσκοι, τοὶ κάλαμοι, τἄγκιστρα τὰ φυκιόεντα δέλητα ὁρμιαὶ κύρτοι τε καὶ ἐκ σχοίνων λαβύρινθοι, μήρινθοι κώπα τε γέρων τ’ ἐπ’ ἐρείσμασι λέμβοσ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 5)
  • ἑξῆσ δὲ Φορμίαι Λακωνικὸν κτίσμα ἐστίν, Ὁρμίαι λεγόμενον πρότερον διὰ τὸ εὐόρμον. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 3 12:19)

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

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