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στέμφυλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: στέμφυλον στέμφυλου

Structure: στεμφυλ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ste/mbw

Sense

  1. a mass of olives from which the oil has been pressed, olive-cake

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

  • οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν τεχνίον ἐξωλέστερον τοῦ πορνοβοσκοῦ κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν πωλεῖν περιπατῶν βούλομαι ῥόδα, ῥαφανῖδασ, θερμοκυάμουσ, στέμφυλα, ἁπλῶσ ἅπαντα μᾶλλον ἢ ταύτασ τρέφειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 45 1:4)
  • πάλιν οὐ ταὐτόν ἐστιν ἁλμάδεσ καὶ στέμφυλα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 47 1:3)
  • Ἀθηναῖοι δὲ τὰσ τετριμμένασ ἐλαίασ στέμφυλα ἐκάλουν, βρύτεα δὲ τὰ ὑφ’ ἡμῶν στέμφυλα, τὰ ἐκπιέσματα τῆσ σταφυλῆσ, παρὰ δὲ τοὺσ βότρυσ γέγονεν ἡ φωνή. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 47 3:4)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ ὄρνεισ ἐπῆσαν ταῖσ κολοκύνταισ καὶ ἄλλοισ κνιστοῖσ λαχάνοισ οὕτωσ δ’ εἴρηκεν Ἀριστοφάνησ ἐν Δηλίᾳ τὰ σύγκοπτα λάχανα, κνιστὰ ἢ στέμφυλα, ὁ Μυρτίλοσ ἔφη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 14 5:2)

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

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