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σκίλλα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκίλλα σκίλλης

Structure: σκιλλ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. a squill, sea-onion

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σκίλλα σκίλλᾱ σκίλλαι
Genitive σκίλλης σκίλλαιν σκιλλῶν
Dative σκίλλῃ σκίλλαιν σκίλλαις
Accusative σκίλλαν σκίλλᾱ σκίλλᾱς
Vocative σκίλλα σκίλλᾱ σκίλλαι

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

  • "πετασώδη τὴν τῶν σπερμάτων ἀπείληφε φύσιν ἄννησον, μάραθον, σταφυλῖνοσ, καυκαλίσ, κώνειον, κόριον, σκίλλα, ἣν ἔνιοι μυηφόνον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 12 2:2)
  • τὰ γὰρ εἰσ λα λήγοντα θηλυκὰ πρὸ τοῦ λ ἕτερον λ ἔχει, Σκύλλα, σκίλλα, κόλλα, βδέλλα, ἅμιλλα, ἄμαλλα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 71 1:1)
  • ‐‐ Κηρὸν, στέαρ συὸσ παλαιὸν καὶ νέον, καὶ ἔλαιον, καὶ ἰὸσ, καὶ σκίλλα, καὶ Ῥητίνη, ἔστω δὲ δύο μοῖραι τοῦ παλαιοῦ στέατοσ πρὸσ τὸ νέον, τῶν δὲ ἄλλων ὁκόσον δοκέει καιρὸσ εἶναι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 21.5)

Synonyms

  1. a squill

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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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