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περίαμμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: περίαμμα περίαμματος

Structure: περιαμματ (Stem)

Etym.: peria/ptw

Sense

  1. anything worn about one, an amulet

Declension

Third 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

  • σημεῖα δὲ τούτων φασὶ διαμένειν τὸ πολλὰσ τῶν γυναικῶν ἔτι καὶ νῦν λαμβάνειν ἐπῳδὰσ ἀπὸ τούτου τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ περιάμματα ποιεῖν, ὡσ γεγονότοσ αὐτοῦ γόητοσ καὶ τὰ περὶ τὰσ τελετὰσ ἐπιτετηδευκότοσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 64 7:1)
  • τὴν μὲν κόμην ἠδύνατό μου διορθῶσαι, τὰ μὲν περιάμματά μου περιελεῖν, ψιλούμενόν με παῦσαι ἠδύνατο, ἀλλὰ βλέπων με ‐ τίνοσ εἴπω; (Epictetus, Works, book 3, 14:3)

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

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