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περισκελίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περισκελίς περισκελίδος

Structure: περισκελιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ske/los

Sense

  1. a leg-band, an anklet or bangle

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

  • τῶν δὲ πλείστων γυναικῶν ἂν ὑποδήματα διάχρυσα περιέλῃσ καὶ ψέλλια καὶ περισκελίδασ καὶ πορφύραν καὶ μαργαρίτασ, ἔνδον μένουσιν. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 301)

Synonyms

  1. a leg-band

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

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