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περονίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: περονίς περονίδος

Structure: περονιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = pero/nh, Soph.

Sense

Declension

Third 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

  • τοσαῦτα φωνήσασα συντόνῳ χερὶ λύει τὸν αὑτῆσ πέπλον, ᾗ χρυσήλατοσ προύκειτο μαστῶν περονίσ, ἐκ δ’ ἐλώπισεν πλευρὰν ἅπασαν ὠλένην τ’ εὐώνυμον. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode, dialogue 1:13)
  • οὐδὲ γάρ εἰσι διηνεκεῖσ, ἀλλὰ πρὶν συνελθεῖν εἰσ τὸ ἄπειρον εἰσ περονίδασ τὴν ἀρχὴν τελευτῶντεσ, ὧν ἡ μὲν εἰσ τὸ προανέχον ἐμβαίνει τῆσ τραπέζησ, ἡ δὲ εἰσ τὸν πόδα· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 176:2)

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

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