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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

  • ἔλεγχε,^ συνεπιλαβοῦ τῆσ ὁρμιᾶσ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 48:9)
  • κάθεσ, εἰ δοκεῖ, σιδηρώσασ γε πρότερον ἐπὶ πολὺ τῆσ ὁρμιᾶσ, ὡσ μὴ ἀποπρίσῃ τοῖσ ὀδοῦσι καταπιὼν τὸ χρυσίον. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 51:5)
  • Οὐδὲν τοιοῦτον, ἀλλ̓ ἔτη μὲν ἐγεγόνειν ἀμφὶ τὰ ἐνενήκοντα, βίον δὲ ἄπορον ἀπὸ καλάμου καὶ ὁρμιᾶσ εἶχον ἐσ ὑπερβολὴν πτωχὸσ ὢν ἄτεκνόσ τε καὶ προσέτι χωλὸσ καὶ ἀμυδρὸν βλέπων. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 17:2)
  • τρέφονται δ’ αἱ μικραὶ σηπίαι τοῖσ λεπτοῖσ ἰχθυδίοισ, ἀποτείνουσαι τὰσ προβοσκίδασ ὥσπερ ὁρμιὰσ καὶ ταύταισ θηρεύουσαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 123 1:2)
  • παρακούοντεσ ἔνιοι βοείαισ θριξὶν οἰόνται πρὸσ τὰσ ὁρμιὰσ χρῆσθαι τοὺσ παλαιούσ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 24 9:1)

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

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