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ῥωγάς?

Third declension Noun; Masc/Fem Transliteration: rhōgas

Principal Part: ῥωγάς ῥωγάδος

Structure: ῥωγαδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ῥώξ

Sense

  1. ragged, cloven

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

  • καὶ τὸν ἀμπελῶνά σου οὐκ ἐπανατρυγήσεις, οὐδὲ τὰς ρῶγας τοῦ ἀμπελῶνός σου συλλέξεις. τῷ πτωχῷ καὶ τῷ προσηλύτῳ καταλείψεις αὐτά. ἐγώ εἰμι Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 19:10)
  • Φυρόμαχον τὸν πάντα φαγεῖν βορόν, οἱᾶ κορώνην παννυχικήν, αὕτη ῥωγὰς ἔχει κάπετος χλαίνης ἐν τρύχει Πελληνίδος. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 73)
  • ὣς εἰπὼν ἀνέβαινε Μελάνθιος, αἰπόλος αἰγῶν, εἰς θαλάμους Ὀδυσῆος ἀνὰ ῥῶγας μεγάροιο. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 22 23:1)

Synonyms

  1. ragged

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

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