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πετρίδιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πετρίδιον πετρίδιου

Structure: πετριδι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: pe/tra의 지소사, Anth.

Sense

Declension

Second 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

  • λέγεται δ’ ὡσ ὅταν ὁ χειμὼν γένηται τῶν πετριδίων ὥσπερ ἀγκύραισ ταῖσ προβοσκίσι λαμβανόμεναι ὁρμοῦσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 123 1:3)
  • ὅθεν ὁ μὲν πολύπουσ εἰσ γῆν ἀνατρέχει καὶ τῶν πετριδίων ἀντιλαμβανόμενοσ σημεῖόν ἐστι πνεύματοσ ὅσον οὔπω παρόντοσ, ἡ δὲ τευθὶσ ἐξάλλεται, φεύγουσα τὸ ψῦχοσ καὶ τὴν ἐν βάθει ταραχὴν τῆσ θαλάττησ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 18 2:1)

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

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