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θελκτήρ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θελκτήρ θελκτῆρος

Structure: θελκτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: qe/lgw

Sense

  1. a soother, charmer

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

  • ἰητῆρα νόσων Ἀσκληπιὸν ἄρχομ’ ἀείδειν, υἱὸν Ἀπόλλωνοσ, τὸν ἐγείνατο δῖα Κορωνὶσ Δωτίῳ ἐν πεδίῳ, κούρη Φλεγύου βασιλῆοσ, χάρμα μέγ’ ἀνθρώποισι, κακῶν θελκτῆρ’ ὀδυνάων. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a soother

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

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