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

  • Κύπρισ μὲν δολόμητισ ἀναπτύξασα καλύπτρην λαὶ περόνην θυόεντα διαστήσασα κομάων χρυσῷ μὲν πλοκάμουσ, χρυσῷ δ’ ἐστέψατο χαίτην. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 139)
  • αὐτὴ γὰρ τάδε εἵματ’ ἐγὼ πόρον, οἷ’ ἀγορεύεισ, πτύξασ’ ἐκ θαλάμου, περόνην τ’ ἐπέθηκα φαεινὴν κείνῳ ἄγαλμ’ ἔμεναι· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 31:2)

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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