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σταμνίον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σταμνίον σταμνίου

Structure: σταμνι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: sta/mnos의 지소사

Sense

  1. a wine-jar

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

  • θεῖσαι μέλαιναν κύλικα μεγάλην ὑπτίαν, μηλοσφαγοῦσαι Θάσιον οἴνου σταμνίον ὀμόσωμεν ἐσ τὴν κύλικα μὴ ’πιχεῖν ὕδωρ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 5:20)
  • φερέτω κύλικά τισ ἔνδοθεν καὶ σταμνίον. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 5:22)
  • εἶτ’ οὐχ ὕβρισ ταῦτ’ ἐστὶ καὶ πολλὴ τρυφή, ὅτ’ ἐγὼ μὲν ὢν Διόνυσοσ υἱὸσ Σταμνίου αὐτὸσ βαδίζω καὶ πονῶ, τοῦτον δ’ ὀχῶ, ἵνα μὴ ταλαιπωροῖτο μηδ’ ἄχθοσ φέροι; (Aristophanes, Frogs, Prologue 1:17)
  • ὡσ θύουσι δ’ οἱ τοιχωρύχοι, κίστασ φέροντεσ σταμνία τ’ οὐχὶ τῶν θεῶν ἕνεκ’, ἀλλ’ ἑαυτῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 27 4:2)
  • πέμπω δὲ καὶ οἴνου γλυκέοσ δώδεκα σταμνία τοῖσ παισὶ καὶ μέλιτοσ δύο. (Plato, Epistles, Letter 13 11:6)

Synonyms

  1. a wine-jar

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

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