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ῥίνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥίνη

Structure: ῥιν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a file or rasp

Declension

First 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

  • ἦν δὲ νάρκαι, βατίδεσ, ἦν δὲ καὶ ζύγαιναι, πρήστιεσ, κἀμίαι τε καὶ βάτοι ῥίναι τε τραχυδέρμονεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 268)
  • τὰ δὲ καλούμενα δαρτὰ τὸ μὲν ὅλον ἐστὶν ὅσα τραχεῖαν ἔχει τὴν ἐπίφυσιν τοῦ δέρματοσ, οὐ λεπίσιν, ἀλλ’ οἱο͂ν ἔχουσιν αἱ βατίδεσ καὶ ῥῖναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 54 2:3)
  • τέκτονοσ ἄρμενα ταῦτα Λεοντίχου, αἵ τε χαρακταὶ ῥῖναι, καὶ κάλων οἱ ταχινοὶ βορέεσ, στάθμαι καὶ μιλτεῖα, καὶ αἱ σχεδὸν ἀμφιπλῆγεσ σφῦραι, καὶ μίλτῳ φυρόμενοι κανόνεσ, αἳ τ’ ἀρίδεσ, ξυστήρ τε, καὶ ἐστελεωμένοσ οὗτοσ ἐμβριθήσ, τέχνασ ὁ πρύτανισ, πέλεκυσ, τρύπανά τ’ εὐδίνητα, καὶ ὠκήεντα τέρετρα, καὶ γόμφων οὗτοι τοὶ πίσυρεσ τορέεσ, ἀμφίξουν τε σκέπαρνον· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 2051)

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

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