Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

σησαμῆ

Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σησαμῆ

Sense

  1. a sesame pudding

Examples

  • ὁ πλακοῦσ πέπεπται, σησαμῆ ξυμπλάττεται. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, iambics2)
  • "ἄμησ, πλακοῦσ, ἔντιλτοσ, ἴτριον, ῥόα, ᾠόν, ἐρέβινθοσ, σησάμη, κοπτή, βότρυσ, ἰσχάσ, ἄπιοσ, πέρσεια, μῆλ’, ἀμύγδαλα ταῦτα μὲν ὁ Κλέαρχοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 609)

Synonyms

  1. a sesame pudding

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

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