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ὄροβος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄροβος ὀρόβου

Structure: ὀροβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bitter vetch, Vicia ervilia

Declension

Second 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

  • "διὰ τί Τραλλιανοὶ καθαρτῆρα καλοῦσι τὸν ὄροβον καὶ χρῶνται μάλιστα πρὸσ τὰσ ἀφοσιώσεισ καὶ τοὺσ καθαρμούσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 461)
  • "διὰ τί Τραλλιανοὶ καθαρτῆρα καλοῦσι τὸν ὄροβον καὶ χρῶνται μάλιστα πρὸσ τὰσ ἀφοσιώσεισ καὶ τοὺσ καθαρμούσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Graecae, section 461)
  • ὁ δὲ αὐτῆσ καρπὸσ ὅμοιοσ τῷ καρπῷ τῆσ στρύχνου, μέγεθοσ δέ ἐστι κατὰ ὄροβον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 36 3:1)

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