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σμῆγμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σμῆγμα σμῆγματος

Structure: σμηγματ (Stem)

Etym.: smh/xw

Sense

  1. soap or unguent

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σμῆγμα σμήγματε σμήγματα
Genitive σμήγματος σμηγμάτοιν σμηγμάτων
Dative σμήγματι σμηγμάτοιν σμήγμασιν*
Accusative σμῆγμα σμήγματε σμήγματα
Vocative σμῆγμα σμήγματε σμήγματα

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

  • Καὶ μᾶλλον μὲν μὴ σμήχεσθαι‧ ἢν δὲ σμήχηται, θερμῷ χρέεσθαι αὐτέῳ καὶ πολλαπλασίῳ ἢ ὡσ νομίζεται σμήγματι, καὶ προσκαταχέεσθαι μὴ ὀλίγῳ, καὶ ταχέωσ μετακαταχέεσθαι. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 18.3)
  • πρῶτον μὲν ἦν λέοντοσ ὀδόντα καῦσαι καὶ κόψαντα χρῆσθαι σμήγματι, δεύτερον δὲ ὀπῷ διακλύζειν τούτῳ δὴ τῷ χρήματι· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 9:12)

Synonyms

  1. soap or unguent

Similar forms

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

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