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σπογγίον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπογγίον σπογγίου

Structure: σπογγι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: spo/ggos의 지소사, Ar.

Sense

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

  • οὐ σπογγιᾷ τίσ μου παρελθὼν τὸ πρόσωπον ἐκκαθαρίσει μεμολυσμένον μαγγανείαισ πολλαῖσ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 34 1:1)
  • εἴτε γάρ τι ἡμῖν λελήρηται, οὐδὲν δεῖ τῆσ Στησιχόρου παλινῳδίασ, ἀλλὰ σπογγιὰ ἰάσεται, εἴτε τι καὶ κρεῖττον ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ ἔνεστιν ἢ ὡσ τοῦτο τὸ ἆθλον πρέπειν αὐτοῖσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:8)

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

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