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ὄσπριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄσπριον ὄσπριου

Structure: ὀσπρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. pulse

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

  • μοχθηρὰ δ’ ἐστὶ τὰ βραδέωσ τὰ ὄσπρια τήκοντα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 255)
  • "αὐτὰσ μὴν σικύασ τμήγων ἀνὰ κλώσμασι πείραισ, ἠέρι δὲ ξήρανον ἐπεγκρεμάσαιο δὲ καπνῷ, χείμασιν ὄφρ’ ἂν δμῶεσ ἅλισ περιχανδέα χύτρον πλήσαντεσ ῥοφέωσιν ἀεργέεσ, ἑφθά τε μάκτρῃ ὄσπρια πανσπερμηδὸν ἐπεγχεύῃσιν ἀλετρίσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 14 3:3)
  • ἔστι δὲ τὰ ὄσπρια πνευματώδη καὶ περίττευμα ποιεῖ πολλῆσ καθάρσεωσ δεόμενον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 95 1:3)
  • ἔστι δὲ τὰ ὄσπρια πνευματώδη καὶ περίσσευμα ποιεῖ πολλῆσ καθάρσεωσ δεόμενον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 95 2:2)
  • ἡ δ’ ἀταξία ὅμοιόν τί μοι δοκεῖ εἶναι οἱο͂́νπερ εἰ γεωργὸσ ὁμοῦ ἐμβάλοι κριθὰσ καὶ πυροὺσ καὶ ὄσπρια, κἄπειτα, ὁπότε δέοι ἢ μάζησ ἢ ἄρτου ἢ ὄψου, διαλέγειν δέοι αὐτῷ ἀντὶ τοῦ λαβόντα διηυκρινημένοισ χρῆσθαι. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 8 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. pulse

Related

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

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