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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σμινύη σμινύᾱ σμινύαι
Genitive σμινύης σμινύαιν σμινυῶν
Dative σμινύῃ σμινύαιν σμινύαις
Accusative σμινύην σμινύᾱ σμινύᾱς
Vocative σμινύη σμινύᾱ σμινύαι

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

  • δεῦρο δεῦρ’ ὦ Ξανθία, κλίμακα λαβὼν ἔξελθε καὶ σμινύην φέρων, κἄπειτ’ ἐπαναβὰσ ἐπὶ τὸ φροντιστήριον τὸ τέγοσ κατάσκαπτ’, εἰ φιλεῖσ τὸν δεσπότην, ἑώσ ἂν αὐτοῖσ ἐμβάλῃσ τὴν οἰκίαν· (Aristophanes, Clouds, Episode 1:6)
  • τοῦτ’ αὐτὸ γὰρ καὶ βούλομαι, ἢν ἡ σμινύη μοι μὴ προδῷ τὰσ ἐλπίδασ, ἢ ’γὼ πρότερόν πωσ ἐκτραχηλισθῶ πεσών. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Episode 1:16)
  • πωλῶ γαῦλον, κτῶμαι σμινύην, καὶ τὰσ ὑδρίασ ἀνορύττω. (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, antepirrheme 1:12)
  • ἔχειν δὲ χρὴ καὶ ἄμην καὶ σμινύην κατὰ ἅμαξαν ἑκάστην, καὶ κατὰ τὸν νωτοφόρον δὲ ἀξίνην καὶ δρέπανον· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 43:4)
  • τούτων δὲ χρὴ τοὺσ μὲν ἀπὸ τῶν ἀκοντιστῶν πέλεκυν ἔχοντασ ξυλοκόπον ἀναγκάζειν στρατεύεσθαι, τοὺσ δ’ ἀπὸ τῶν τοξοτῶν σμινύην, τοὺσ δ’ ἀπὸ τῶν σφενδονητῶν ἄμην· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 45:2)

Synonyms

  1. a two-pronged hoe or mattock

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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