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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σηπία σηπίᾱ σηπίαι
Genitive σηπίᾱς σηπίαιν σηπιῶν
Dative σηπίᾱͅ σηπίαιν σηπίαις
Accusative σηπίᾱν σηπίᾱ σηπίᾱς
Vocative σηπίᾱ σηπίᾱ σηπίαι

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

  • ποῦ δ’ ὁ φιλόσοφοσ Κυνίσκοσ, ὃν ἔδει τῆσ Ἑκάτησ τὸ δεῖπνον φαγόντα καὶ τὰ ἐκ τῶν καθαρσίων ᾠὰ καὶ πρὸσ τούτοισ γε σηπίαν ὠμὴν ἀποθανεῖν; (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 6:18)
  • ἐν ὄψει δὲ πάντων, ἃ μηδὲ ἰδίᾳ ποιήσειεν ἄν τισ, θαρρῶν ποίει, καὶ τῶν ἀφροδισίων αἱροῦ τὰ γελοιότερα, καὶ τέλοσ, ἤν σοι δοκῇ, πολύποδα ὠμὸν ἢ σηπίαν φαγὼν ἀπόθανε. (Lucian, Vitarum auctio, (no name) 10:7)
  • οἳ πρῶτα μὲν τὴν σηπίαν ὀπιτθοτίλαν, ὡσ λέγουσ1’, ὀνομάζετε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 15 3:1)
  • Νικόστρατοσ ἢ Φιλέταιροσ ἐν Ἀντύλλῳ φησὶν οὔποτ’ ἂν αὖθισ αὖ σηπίαν ἀπὸ τηγάνου τολμήσαιμι φαγεῖν μόνοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 71 2:3)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ περὶ ζωικῶν Ἀριστοτέλησ μαλάκιά φησιν εἶναι πουλύποδασ, ὀσμύλην, ἑλεδώνην, σηπίαν, τευθίδα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1072)

Synonyms

  1. the cuttle-fish

Related

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

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