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πηλαμύς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πηλαμύς πηλαμύδος

Structure: πηλαμυδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. young tunny

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

  • ἀναλογῶν μέντοι ὁ χελιδονίασ τῇ πηλαμύδι σκληρότερόσ ἐστιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 53 4:3)
  • "ἀκηκόαμεν γοῦν ἁλιέωσ Ἐρετρικοῦ ἱερὸν ἰχθὺν καὶ ἄλλων πολλῶν ἁλιέων καλούντων τὸν πομπίλον ἐστὶν πελάγιοσ καὶ παρὰ τὰσ ναῦσ πυκνὰ φαίνεται ἐοικὼσ πηλαμύδι, ποικίλοσ, τὸν δ’ οὖν ἰχθύν τισ παρὰ τῷ ποιητῇ ἕλκει · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 20 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. young tunny

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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