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

  • καὶ τὰ μὲν πρῶτα ἀπεκρούοντο βαλλόμενοι ἐκ τῶν βαρβάρων, καὶ ἄλλοι τε πολλοὶ τραυματίαι ἐγένοντο καὶ αὐτὸσ Ἀλέξανδροσ ἐσ τὴν κνήμην τοξεύεται διαμπὰξ καὶ τῆσ περόνησ τι ἀποθραύεται αὐτῷ ἐκ τοῦ τοξεύματοσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 3, chapter 30 11:2)
  • φῦναι δὲ οὐκ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ αὐτὴν λέγουσιν, ἀλλὰ τὸ ἔργον γεγενῆσθαι τῆσ ἐσ τὸν ἔρωτα ἄσησ καὶ τῆσ περόνησ ἣν ἐπὶ ταῖσ θριξὶν εἶχεν ἡ Φαίδρα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 4:3)

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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