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ὀστάριον?

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: ostarion

Principal Part: ὀστάριον ὀστάριου

Structure: ὀσταρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ὀστέον의 지소사

Sense

  1. a little bone

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

  • Ἀρκάδας οὐχ οὕτω Στυμφαλίδες, ὡς ἐμὲ κίχλαι αἱ νέκυες ξηροῖς ἤκαχον ὀσταρίοις, ἁρ´πυιαι, δραχμῆς ξηρὴ δεκάς. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 961)
  • " ἐν δείπνῳ προσερρίπτουν αὐτῷ τινες ὀστάρια ὡς κυνί: (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. b'. DIOGENHS 27:6)

Synonyms

  1. a little bone

Similar forms

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

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