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πιθάκνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πιθάκνη

Structure: πιθακν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: pi/qos

Sense

  1. a wine-cask or jar, in casks

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πιθάκνη πιθάκνᾱ πιθάκναι
Genitive πιθάκνης πιθάκναιν πιθακνῶν
Dative πιθάκνῃ πιθάκναιν πιθάκναις
Accusative πιθάκνην πιθάκνᾱ πιθάκνᾱς
Vocative πιθάκνη πιθάκνᾱ πιθάκναι

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

  • ἐξ ἐπιπολῆσ δέ τινοσ εἰπόντοσ, Ἐκ τῆσ ἐπιπολῆσ εἶπεν, ὡσ ἐκ τῆσ πιθάκνησ. (Lucian, 5:17)
  • τὴν δὲ χώραν τὸ ἐκ μέρουσ ἐχόμενον, ὥσπερ ἐπὶ τῆσ τοῦ οἴνου πιθάκνησ; (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 1, chapter 20 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a wine-cask or jar

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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