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σπάργανον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπάργανον σπάργανου

Structure: σπαργαν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: spa/rgw

Sense

  1. a swathing band, swaddling-clothes, tokens by which a person is identified

Declension

Second 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

  • ἐν σπαργάνοισ ἀνετράφην καὶ ἐν φροντίσιν. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 7:4)
  • καὶ ἡ γένεσίσ σου, ἐν ᾗ ἡμέρᾳ ἐτέχθησ, οὐκ ἔδησασ τοὺσ μαστούσ σου καί ἐν ὕδατι οὐκ ἐλούσθησ, οὐδὲ ἁλὶ ἡλίσθησ καὶ ἐν σπαργάνοισ οὐκ ἐσπαργανώθησ, (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 16:4)
  • Τὸ νεογνὸν ταῦτα, ὃ μόλισ ἕστηκε, τὸ ἐν τοῖσ σπαργάνοισ; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:1)
  • Ἀλλ̓ ὄψει που ἐν τοῖσ σπαργάνοισ αὐτὴν τοὺ βρέφουσ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 4:8)
  • ὥστε βαδιοῦμαι ἀποληψόμενοσ αὐτήν, εἴ που ὡσ φὴσ εὑρεθείη ἐν τοῖσ σπαργάνοισ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 9:5)

Synonyms

  1. a swathing band

Related

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

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