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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

  • ἐμοὶ γὰρ ἦν ἄγροικοσ ἥδιστοσ βίοσ εὐρωτιῶν, ἀκόρητοσ, εἰκῇ κείμενοσ, βρύων μελίτταισ καὶ προβάτοισ καὶ στεμφύλοισ. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 2:18)
  • Φρύνιχοσ δ’ ἐν Ποαστρίαισ αὐτοπυρίτασ αὐτοὺσ καλῶν φησιν αὐτοπυρίταισὶ τ’ ἄρτοισ καὶ λιπῶσι στεμφύλοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 75 3:2)

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

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