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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)
  • ὡσ αἱ τράπεζαί γ’ εἰσὶν ἐπινενησμέναι ἀγαθῶν ἁπάντων καὶ παρεσκευασμέναι, κλῖναί τε σισυρῶν καὶ δαπίδων νενασμέναι, κρατῆρα συγκιρνᾶσιν, αἱ μυροπώλιδεσ ἑστᾶσ’ ἐφεξῆσ, τὰ τεμάχη ῥιπίζεται, λαγῷ’ ἀναπηγνύασι, πόπανα πέττεται, στέφανοι πλέκονται, φρύγεται τραγήματα, χύτρασ ἔτνουσ ἕψουσιν αἱ νεώταται. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 4:2)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐδ’ ὁ χρηστὸσ οὑτοσὶ νεανίασ ἐγείρεται τῆσ νυκτόσ, ἀλλὰ πέρδεται ἐν πέντε σισύραισ ἐγκεκορδυλημένοσ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 1:9)
  • πῶσ οὖν τισ ἂν σώσειε τοιαύτην πόλιν, ᾗ μήτε χλαῖνα μήτε σισύρα συμφέρει; (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, trochees 2:47)

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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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