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σφενδάμνινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφενδάμνινος σφενδάμνινη σφενδάμνινον

Structure: σφενδαμνιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from sfe/ndamnos

Sense

  1. of maple wood, "hearts of oak, "

Declension

First/Second 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

  • οἱ δ’ ὤσφροντο πρεσβῦταί τινεσ Ἀχαρνικοί, στιπτοὶ γέροντεσ πρίνινοι ἀτεράμονεσ Μαραθωνομάχαι σφενδάμνινοι. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Prologue 6:10)
  • γαυριῶσαι δ’ ἀναμένουσιν ὧδ’ ἐπηγλαισμέναι μείρακεσ φαιδραὶ τράπεζαι τρισκελεῖσ σφενδάμνιναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 323)

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

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