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σπυρίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπυρίς σπυρίδος

Structure: σπυριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a large basket, a creel

Declension

Third 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

  • τοῦτο δὲ σαφῶσ δηλοῖ τὸ ἀπὸ σπυρίδοσ δεῖπνον, ὅταν τισ αὐτὸσ αὑτῷ σκευάσασ δεῖπνον καὶ συνθεὶσ εἰσ σπυρίδα παρά τινα δειπνήσων ἰῄ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 68 1:9)
  • πεπόνων πάλιν ἑόρακασ ἤδη πώποτ’ ἐσκευασμένον ἤνυστρον ἢ σπλῆν’ ὀπτὸν ὠνθυλευμένον ἢ κοκκυμήλων σπυρίδα πεπόνων; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 33 2:4)
  • σπυρίδα λαβὼν γὰρ καὶ στέφανον ὡσ ἦν σκότοσ, φάσκων παρὰ τῆσ νύμφησ ὁ τὰσ ὄρνεισ φέρων ἥκειν, δεδείπνηχ’, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, εἰσπεσών. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 433)
  • εἰσ σπυρίδα μάζασ ἐμβαλεῖσ, ἀλλ’ οὐ φακῆν οἰνάριον εἰσ λάγυνον, ἀλλ’ οὐ κάραβον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 19 1:5)
  • τῶν δὲ πλῆθοσ ἐστὶ τοσοῦτο ὥστε, ὅταν τὴν θύρην τὴν καταπακτὴν ἀνακλίνῃ, κατιεῖ σχοίνῳ σπυρίδα κεινὴν ἐσ τὴν λίμνην, καὶ οὐ πολλόν τινα χρόνον ἐπισχὼν ἀνασπᾷ πλήρεα ἰχθύων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 5, chapter 16 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. a large basket

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

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