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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

  • Ἀριστοτέλησ δὲ εἴδη αὐτῶν φησιν εἶναι πλείω, ἀκανθίαν, λεῖον, ποικίλον, σκύμνον, ἀλωπεκίαν, ῥίνην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 43 1:1)
  • ἀποκεκλεῖσθαι γὰρ αὐτὸ πάνυ ἀκριβῶσ, ὥσπερ εἴ τισ ἐν δεσμωτηρίῳ ῥίνην ἀποκρύψειεν, ὅπωσ μηδεὶσ τῶν δεσμωτῶν λαβὼν ἔπειτα λύσειεν ἑαυτόν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 37:2)
  • ἀγαθὸν δὲ καὶ ῥίνην φέρεσθαι· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 42:1)
  • ἔχουσιν ἐπὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ κόμην οἱᾶ τὰ βατράχια <τὰ> ἐν ταῖσ λίμναισ χρόαν τε καὶ ὅτι τῶν τριχῶν οὐκ ἂν ἀποκρίναισ μίαν ἀπὸ τῶν ἄλλων, τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν σῶμα φολίδι λεπτῇ πέφρικέ σφισι κατὰ ἰχθὺν ῥίνην. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 2:3)

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

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