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πῖσος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πῖσος πῖσεος

Structure: πισο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: pi/nw

Sense

  1. meadows

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

  • ἀμφί μοι Ἑρμείαο φίλον γόνον ἔννεπε, Μοῦσα, αἰγιπόδην, δικέρωτα, φιλόκροτον, ὅστ’ ἀνὰ πίση δενδρήεντ’ ἄμυδισ φοιτᾷ χορογηθέσι νύμφαισ, αἵ τε κατ’ αἰγίλιποσ πέτρησ στείβουσι κάρηνα Πᾶν’ ἀνακεκλόμεναι, νόμιον θεόν, ἀγλαέθειρον, αὐχμήενθ’, ὃσ πάντα λόφον νιφόεντα λέλογχε καὶ κορυφὰσ ὀρέων καὶ πετρήεντα κάρηνα. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:1)
  • "πᾶσα γὰρ χεδροπώδησ ἥμεροσ φύσισ ἐνσπέρματοσ ἣ μὲν ἑψήσεωσ ἕνεκα σπείρεται, οἱο͂ν ὁ κύαμοσ, πισόσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 71 1:1)
  • πισὸσ καὶ ὦχροσ, ὁκόσον ἀφυσότερα, τοσόνδε ἑλκέων ἀκαθαρτότερα. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU XRONIWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 236)
  • ἡνιοχοῦντεσ δὲ συνωρίδα Πῖσόσ ἐστιν ὁ Περιήρουσ καὶ Ἀστερίων Κομήτου, πλεῦσαι καὶ οὗτοσ λεγόμενοσ ἐπὶ τῆσ Ἀργοῦσ, καὶ Πολυδεύκησ τε καὶ Ἄδμητοσ, ἐπὶ δὲ αὐτοῖσ Εὔφημοσ, Ποσειδῶνόσ τε ὢν κατὰ τὸν τῶν ποιητῶν λόγον καὶ Ιἄσονι ἐσ Κόλχουσ τοῦ πλοῦ μετεσχηκώσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 17 14:4)

Synonyms

  1. meadows

Related

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

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