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πήνισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πήνισμα πήνισματος

Structure: πηνισματ (Stem)

Etym.: phni/zw

Sense

  1. the woof on the spool

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

  • αἵ θ’ ὑπωρόφιοι κατὰ γωνίασ εἱειειειλίσσετε δακτύλοισ φάλαγγεσ ἱστόπονα πηνίσματα, κερκίδοσ ἀοιδοῦ μελέτασ, ἵν’ ὁ φίλαυλοσ ἔπαλλε δελφὶσ πρῴραισ κυανεμβόλοισ μαντεῖα καὶ σταδίουσ, οἰνάνθασ γάνοσ ἀμπέλου, βότρυοσ ἕλικα παυσίπονον. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, lyric2)
  • ἡ τὸ πρὶν αὐχήσασα πολυχρύσοισ ἐπ’ ἐρασταῖσ, ἡ Νέμεσιν δεινὴν οὐχὶ κύσασα θεόν, μίσθια νῦν σπαθίοισ πενιχροῖσ πηνίσματα κρούει. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2831)

Synonyms

  1. the woof on the spool

    • πήνη (the thread on the spool or shuttle, the woof, the web)

Similar forms

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

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