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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

  • κατάχει σὺ τῆσ χορδῆσ τὸ μέλι, τὰσ σηπίασ στάθευε. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe2)
  • κάθησο τοίνυν σηπίασ μασωμένη. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Choral, iambics 1:19)
  • τὰσ σηπίασ δὸσ πρῶτον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 21 1:3)
  • μὴ φῶσὶ σου, Δωριάσ, ἀλούτουσ σηπίασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 21 1:6)
  • ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ ἡ Ἴκαροσ πρότερον Ἰχθυόεσσα διὰ τὸ ἐν αὐτῇ τῶν ἰχθύων πλῆθοσ, ὡσ καὶ Ἐχινάδεσ ἀπὸ τῶν ἐχίνων καὶ Σηπιὰσ ἄκρα ἀπὸ τῶν περὶ αὐτὴν σηπιῶν καὶ Λαγοῦσσαι νῆσοι ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν αὐταῖσ λαγωῶν καὶ ἕτεραι Φυκοῦσσαι καὶ Λοπαδοῦσσαι ἀπὸ τῶν παραπλησίων, προσαγορεύεται δέ, φησὶν Ἐπαρχίδησ, ἡ ἄμπελοσ ἡ τὸν Ἰκάριον πράμνιον φέρουσα ὑπὸ τῶν ξένων μὲν ἱερά, ὑπὸ δὲ τῶν Οἰνοαίων Διονυσιάσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 55 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. the cuttle-fish

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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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