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περόνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περόνη

Structure: περον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: pei/rw

Sense

  1. anything pointed for piercing or pinning, the tongue of a buckle or brooch, the buckle or brooch, a large pin
  2. the small bone of the leg

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative περόνη περόνᾱ περόναι
Genitive περόνης περόναιν περονῶν
Dative περόνῃ περόναιν περόναις
Accusative περόνην περόνᾱ περόνᾱς
Vocative περόνη περόνᾱ περόναι

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

  • ἐν δ’ ἀρ’ ἔσαν περόναι δυοκαίδεκα πᾶσαι χρύσειαι, κληῖ̈σιν ἐϋγνάμπτοισ ἀραρυῖαι. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 18 48:4)
  • τὸ μὲν ἔμπροσθεν τὸ δὲ ὄπισθεν προσῆγον, ἔπειτα περόναι συνῆπτον πρὸσ ἄλληλα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. anything pointed for piercing or pinning

  2. the small bone of the leg

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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