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σησάμη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σησάμη

Structure: σησαμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. sesame

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

  • σταῖσ δ’ ἐστὶν ὑγρὸν εἰσ τήγανον ἐπιχεόμενον, μέλιτοσ ἐπιβαλλομένου καὶ σησάμησ καὶ τυροῦ, ὡσ Ιἀτροκλῆσ φησίν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 552)
  • "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)
  • ὁ πλακοῦσ πέπεπται, σησαμῆ ξυμπλάττεται. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, iambics2)

Synonyms

  1. sesame

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

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