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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

  • μὰ τὸν Διόνυσον οὐδ’ ἐγὼ γὰρ τὰσ ἐμὰσ Λακωνικάσ, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἔτυχον χεζητιῶν, ἐσ τὼ κοθόρνω τὼ πόδ’ ἐνθεὶσ ἱέμαι, ἵνα μὴ ’γχέσαιμ’ ἐσ τὴν σισύραν· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode29)
  • σισύραν οὐκ ἔχεισ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene 2:31)
  • καὶ μὴν θρέψω γ’ αὐτὸν παρέχων ὅσα πρεσβύτῃ ξύμφορα, χόνδρον λείχειν, χλαῖναν μαλακήν, σισύραν, πόρνην, ἥτισ τὸ πέοσ τρίψει καὶ τὴν ὀσφῦν. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Choral, anapests1)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ σισύραν ᾠόμην Θυμαιτίδα. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode12)
  • ταῦτ οὖν ἱκέται νὼ πρὸσ σὲ δεῦρ’ ἀφίγμεθα, εἴ τινα πόλιν φράσειασ ἡμῖν εὐέρον ὥσπερ σισύραν ἐγκατακλινῆναι μαλθακήν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Prologue 3:39)

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

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