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σίλφη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σίλφη

Structure: σιλφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. an insect, blatta, tinea, a book-worm

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

  • ὁρᾷσ ἐπαγρυπνοῦντα καὶ τοῦτον ἐπὶ φροντίδων, ἀναλογιζόμενον τοὺσ τόκουσ καὶ τοὺσ δακτύλουσ κατεσκληκότα, ὃν δεήσει μετ’ ὀλίγον πάντα ταῦτα καταλιπόντα σίλφην ἢ ἐμπίδα ἢ κυνόμυιαν γενέσθαι; (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 31:1)
  • ὁρῶ κακοδαίμονα καὶ ἀνόητον ἄνθρωπον οὐδὲ νῦν πολὺ τῆσ σίλφησ ἢ ἐμπίδοσ ἄμεινον βιοῦντα. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 31:2)
  • ἐν δὲ Σίλφαισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 58 3:1)
  • ἐχθίστη Μούσαισ σελιδηφάγε, λωβήτειρα φωλάσ, ἀεὶ σοφίησ κλέμματα φερβομένη, τίπτε, κελαινόχρωσ, ἱεραῖσ ψήφοισι λοχάζῃ, σίλφη, τὴν φθονερὴν εἰκόνα πλαττομένη; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2511)

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

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