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σησάμινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σησάμινος σησάμινη σησάμινον

Structure: σησαμιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. made of sesame

Examples

  • πολὺ γὰρ ἐνταῦθα ηὑρίσκετο χρῖμα, ᾧ ἐχρῶντο ἀντ’ ἐλαίου, σύειον καὶ σησάμινον καὶ ἀμυγδάλινον ἐκ τῶν πικρῶν καὶ τερμίνθινον. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 15:1)

Synonyms

  1. made of sesame

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

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