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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

  • τὸ δὲ θύννειον, φησί, γίνεται ἐκ τῆσ μείζονοσ πηλαμύδοσ, ὧν τὸ μικρὸν ἀναλογεῖ τῷ κυβίῳ, ἐξ οὗ γένουσ ἐστὶ καὶ τὸ ὡραῖον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 92 1:2)
  • ἐπακολουθοῦντεσ γὰρ ταῖσ ἀγέλαισ τῶν ἰχθύων, κορδύλησ τε καὶ θύννησ καὶ αὐτῆσ τῆσ πηλαμύδοσ, πιαίνονταί τε καὶ εὐάλωτοι γίνονται διὰ τὸ πλησιάζειν τῇ γῇ προαλέστερον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 3 37:5)

Synonyms

  1. young tunny

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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