Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

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

  • χαλῶντοσ δὲ τούτου πολλάκισ καὶ ἡ περόνη ἀποστᾶσα χωλὸν ἀπέδειξε τὸν ἵππον. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 8:5)
  • "τῶν τινα καρρέζουσα Ἀχαιιάδων βαθυκόλπων, πρὸσ χρυσῇ περόνῃ καταμύξατο χεῖρα ἀραιήν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 5:4)
  • αὐτάρ οἱ περόνη χρυσοῖο τέτυκτο αὐλοῖσιν διδύμοισι· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 28:6)
  • ἦ μάλα δή τινα Κύπρισ Ἀχαιϊάδων ἀνιεῖσα Τρωσὶν ἅμα σπέσθαι, τοὺσ νῦν ἔκπαγλα φίλησε, τῶν τινα καρρέζουσα Ἀχαιϊάδων ἐϋπέπλων πρὸσ χρυσῇ περόνῃ καταμύξατο χεῖρα ἀραιήν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 5 45:6)

Synonyms

  1. anything pointed for piercing or pinning

  2. the small bone of the leg

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

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