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σισύρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σισύρα

Structure: σισυρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a cloak of goats-hair

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

  • ἡ πορφύρα μόνον ἔστω καλὴ καὶ εὐανθήσ, κἂν σισύρα τῶν παχειῶν τὸ ἱμάτιον ᾖ. (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 13:23)
  • πῶσ οὖν τισ ἂν σώσειε τοιαύτην πόλιν, ᾗ μήτε χλαῖνα μήτε σισύρα συμφέρει; (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, trochees 2:47)

Related

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

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