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σίραιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σίραιον σιραίου

Structure: σιραι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. new wine, boiled down

Declension

Second 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

  • ὦ δέσποτ’ ἄναξ γεῖτον ἀγυιεῦ προθύρου προπύλαιε, δέξαι τελετὴν καινὴν ὦναξ, ἣν τῷ πατρὶ καινοτομοῦμεν, παῦσόν τ’ αὐτοῦ τοῦτο τὸ λίαν στρυφνὸν καὶ πρίνινον ἦθοσ, ἀντὶ σιραίου μέλιτοσ μικρὸν τῷ θυμιδίῳ παραμείξασ· (Aristophanes, Wasps, Lyric-Scene, anapests1)
  • ἀστάφιδοσ, ἁλῶν, σιραίου, σιλφίου, τυροῦ, θύμου, σησάμου, νίτρου, κυμίνου, ῥοῦ, μέλιτοσ, ὀριγάνου, βοτανίων, ὄξουσ, ἐλαῶν, εἰσ ἀβυρτάκην χλόησ, καππάριδοσ, ᾠῶν, ταρίχουσ, καρδάμων, θρίων, ὀποῦ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 77 1:8)

Synonyms

  1. new wine

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