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σηπία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σηπία

Structure: σηπι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. the cuttle-fish

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

  • ὥσπερ εἴ τισ σηπίαισ πώγωνα περιδήσειεν ἐσταθευμέναισ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Prologue 3:29)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πλησίον ἦσαν, διαστάντεσ οἱ μὲν ἔνθεν, οἱ δὲ ἔνθεν ἔβαλλον ἡμᾶσ σηπίαισ ξηραῖσ καὶ ὀφθαλμοῖσ καρκίνων. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 39:3)

Synonyms

  1. the cuttle-fish

Related

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

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