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περόνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περόνη

Structure: περον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: pei/rw

Sense

anything pointed for piercing or pinning, the tongue of a buckle or brooch, the buckle or brooch, a large pin
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

λοχίοισ δ’ αὐτίκα νιν δέ‐ ξατο θαλάμαισ Κρονίδασ Ζεύσ, κατὰ μηρῷ δὲ καλύψασ χρυσέαισιν συνερείδει περόναισ κρυπτὸν ἀφ’ Ἥρασ. (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 12)
ὦ ζαθέων πετάλων πολυθηρότα‐ τον νάποσ, Ἀρτέμιδοσ χιονοτρόφον ὄμμα Κιθαιρών, μήποτε τὸν θανάτῳ προτεθέντα, λόχευμ’ Ιὀκάστασ, ὤφελεσ Οἰδιπόδαν θρέψαι, βρέφοσ ἔκβολον οἴκων, χρυσοδέτοισ περόναισ ἐπίσαμον· (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, antistrophe 11)
ὁ δ’ Οἰδίπουσ ἤρασσε περόναισ βλέφαρα· (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 5 1:1)
"αἱ δὲ γυναῖκεσ αὐτῶν τὰσ Θρᾳκῶν τῶν πρὸσ ἑσπέραν καὶ ἄρκτον περιοίκων γυναῖκασ ἐποίκιλλον τὰ σώματα, περόναισ γραφὴν ἐνεῖσαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:55)
τὸ γάρ εἰσ τὸν σίδηρον ἔμβλημα τοῦ ξύλου πρότερον μὲν ἦν δυσὶ περόναισ κατειλημμένον σιδηραῖσ, τότε δὲ ὁ Μάριοσ τὴν μέν, ὥσπερ εἶχεν, εἰάσε, τὴν δὲ ἑτέραν ἐξελὼν ξύλινον ἧλον εὔθραυστον ἀντ’ αὐτῆσ ἐνέβαλε, τεχνάζων προσπεσόντα τὸν ὑσσὸν τῷ θυρεῷ τοῦ πολεμίου μὴ μένειν ὀρθόν, ἀλλὰ τοῦ ξυλίνου κλασθέντοσ ἥλου καμπὴν γίνεσθαι περὶ τὸν σίδηρον καὶ παρέλκεσθαι τὸ δόρυ, διὰ τὴν στρεβλότητα τῆσ αἰχμῆσ ἐνεχόμενον. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 25 1:4)

Synonyms

anything pointed for piercing or pinning
- πόρπη (a buckle-pin, a buckle or brooch)
the small bone of the leg
- μηρός (the leg-bones)
- κερκίς (the great bone of the leg, the tibia)

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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περόνη

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Synonyms

anything pointed for piercing or pinning

the small bone of the leg

Similar forms

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περόνη

Sense

Declension

Examples

Synonyms

anything pointed for piercing or pinning

the small bone of the leg

Similar forms

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Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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