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σμινύη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σμινύη

Structure: σμινυ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a two-pronged hoe or mattock

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

  • τοῦτ’ αὐτὸ γὰρ καὶ βούλομαι, ἢν ἡ σμινύη μοι μὴ προδῷ τὰσ ἐλπίδασ, ἢ ’γὼ πρότερόν πωσ ἐκτραχηλισθῶ πεσών. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Episode 1:16)

Synonyms

  1. a two-pronged hoe or mattock

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

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