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ὀστράκινος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀστράκινος ὀστράκινη ὀστράκινον

Structure: ὀστρακιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. earthen, of clay

Declension

First/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

  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ εἰσ τὸν ποταμὸν βάλλοντεσ ἀφιᾶσιν, ἀρίστην ἡγούμενοι ταφὴν ταύτην, οἱ δὲ περιχέαντεσ ὑέλον ἐν ταῖσ οἰκίαισ φυλάττοντεσ νομίζουσι δεῖν μήτε τῶν τελευτώντων ἀγνοεῖσθαι τὰσ ὄψεισ τοῖσ συγγενέσι μήτ’ ἐπιλανθάνεσθαι τοὺσ προσήκοντασ τῷ γένει τῶν προσῳκειωμένων, ἔνιοι δ’ εἰσ ὀστρακίνασ σοροὺσ ἐμβάλλοντεσ κατορύττουσι κύκλῳ τῶν ἱερῶν, καὶ τὸν ἐπὶ τούτοισ γινόμενον ὁρ́κον μέγιστον ἡγοῦνται. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 9 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. earthen

Related

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

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