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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὄσπριον ὀσπρίω ό̓σπρια
Genitive ὀσπρίου ὀσπρίοιν ὀσπρίων
Dative ὀσπρίῳ ὀσπρίοιν ὀσπρίοις
Accusative ὄσπριον ὀσπρίω ό̓σπρια
Vocative ό̓σπριον ὀσπρίω ό̓σπρια

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

  • χωρὶσ δὲ τῶν δημητριακῶν καρπῶν φύεται κατὰ τὴν Ἰνδικὴν πολλὴ μὲν κέγχροσ, ἀρδευομένη τῇ τῶν ποταμίων ναμάτων δαψιλείᾳ, πολὺ δ’ ὄσπριον καὶ διάφορον, ἔτι δ’ ὄρυζα καὶ ὁ προσαγορευόμενοσ βόσποροσ, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτ’ ἄλλα πολλὰ τῶν πρὸσ διατροφὴν χρησίμων· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 36 3:1)
  • κυάμουσ δὲ οὔτε τι μάλα σπείρουσι Αἰγύπτιοι ἐν τῇ χώρῃ, τούσ τε γινομένουσ οὔτε τρώγουσι οὔτε ἕψοντεσ πατέονται, οἱ δὲ δὴ ἱρέεσ οὐδὲ ὁρέοντεσ ἀνέχονται, νομίζοντεσ οὐ καθαρὸν εἶναί μιν ὄσπριον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 37 6:1)
  • κύαμον μὲν οὖν ἐφ’ ὅτῳ μὴ καθαρὸν εἶναι νομίζουσιν ὄσπριον, ἔστιν ἱερὸσ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ λόγοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 15 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. pulse

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

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