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πόπανον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πόπανον πόπανου

Structure: ποπαν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: pe/ptw

Sense

  1. a round cake

Declension

Second 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

  • θέμενοι δὲ βωμοὺσ καὶ προρρήσεισ καὶ περιρραντήρια προσάγουσι τὰσ θυσίασ, βοῦν μὲν ἀροτῆρα ὁ γεωργόσ, ἄρνα δὲ ὁ ποιμὴν καὶ αἶγα ὁ αἰπόλοσ, ὁ δέ τισ λιβανωτὸν ἢ πόπανον, ὁ δὲ πένησ ἱλάσατο τὸν θεὸν κύσασ μόνον τὴν ἑαυτοῦ δεξιάν. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 12:1)
  • ὦ Θρᾷττα τὴν κίστην κάθελε, κᾆτ’ ἔξελε τὸ πόπανον, ὅπωσ λαβοῦσα θύσω τοῖν θεοῖν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 3:18)
  • μετὰ τοῦτο δὲ περιῆλθε τοὺσ βωμοὺσ ἅπαντασ ἐν κύκλῳ, εἴ που πόπανον εἰή τι καταλελειμμένον· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode 1:15)
  • ὁ λιβανωτὸσ εὐσεβὲσ καὶ τὸ πόπανον· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 27 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. a round cake

Related

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

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