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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

  • "ὁ δὲ τύποσ ἦν τοῦ ἀγγείου πρότερον μὲν τοῖσ Παναθηναικοῖσ ἐοικώσ, ἡνίκα ἐκαλεῖτο πελίκη, ὕστερον δὲ ἔσχεν οἰνοχόησ σχῆμα, οἱοῖ́ εἰσιν οἱ ἐν τῇ ἑορτῇ παρατιθέμενοι, ὁποίουσ δή ποτε ὄλπασ ἐκάλουν, χρώμενοι πρὸσ τὴν τοῦ οἴνου ἔγχυσιν, καθάπερ Ιὤν ὁ Χῖοσ ἐν Εὐρυτίδαισ φησίν ἐκ ζαθέων πιθακνῶν ἀφύσσοντεσ ὄλπαισ οἶνον ὑπερφίαλον κελαρύζετε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 905)
  • ὡσ γὰρ οὐκ ἀποτετιμηκώσ, ἀλλ’ ἐμῶν ἐσομένων κατὰ τὴν δίκην, ἃ μὲν οἱο͂́ν τ’ ἦν ἐξενεγκεῖν, ᾤχετο λαβών, τοὺσ καρποὺσ καὶ τὰ σκεύη τὰ γεωργικὰ πάντα πλὴν τῶν πιθακνῶν· (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 36:2)

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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