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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

  • ὦτα ἔχουσι, καὶ οὐκ ἀκούσονται, ρῖνασ ἔχουσι, καὶ οὐκ ὀσφρανθήσονται, (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 113:14)
  • αὗται δὲ ῥῖνασ ἔχουσιν. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Parodos, anapests30)
  • πάντα τρόπον, ἐν κλίμακι δήσασ κρεμάσασ ὑστριχίδι μαστιγῶν, δέρων, στρεβλῶν, ἔτι δ’ ἐσ τὰσ ῥῖνασ ὄξοσ ἐγχέων, πλίνθουσ ἐπιτιθείσ, πάντα τἄλλα, πλὴν πράσῳ μὴ τύπτε τοῦτον μηδὲ γητείῳ νέῳ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, iambics15)
  • φαλακρὰ γὰρ ἄμφω καὶ γυμνά, καὶ τοὺσ ὀδόντασ ὁμοίωσ προφαίνομεν καὶ τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ ἀφῃρήμεθα καὶ τὰσ ῥῖνασ ἀποσεσιμώμεθα. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 3:5)
  • ἢν ἀποκτείνῃ τισ ὑμῶν Φιλοκράτη τὸν Στρούθιον, λήψεται τάλαντον, ἢν δὲ ζῶντά <γ’> ἀγάγῃ, τέτταρα, ὅτι συνείρων τοὺσ σπίνουσ πωλεῖ καθ’ ἑπτὰ τοὐβολοῦ, εἶτα φυσῶν τὰσ κίχλασ δείκνυσι καὶ λυμαίνεται, τοῖσ τε κοψίχοισιν ἐσ τὰσ ῥῖνασ ἐγχεῖ τὰ πτερά, τὰσ περιστεράσ θ’ ὁμοίωσ ξυλλαβὼν εἱρ́ξασ ἔχει, κἀπαναγκάζει παλεύειν δεδεμένασ ἐν δικτύῳ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, epirrheme3)

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

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