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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

  • πάσασ τὰσ ἡμέρασ τῆσ εὐχῆσ αὐτοῦ. ἀπὸ πάντων ὅσα γίνεται ἐξ ἀμπέλου, οἶνον ἀπὸ στεμφύλων ἕωσ γιγάρτου οὐ φάγεται. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 6:4)
  • μεθύσκονται δὲ κἀν τοῖσ ἀλόγοισ ζῴοισ ὑέσ μὲν σταφυλῆσ στεμφύλων χορτασθέντεσ καὶ τὸ τῶν κοράκων καὶ τῶν κυνῶν γένοσ τὴν οἰνοῦτταν καλουμένην φαγόντα βοτάνην, πίθηκοσ δὲ καὶ ἐλέφασ πιόντεσ οἶνον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 34 2:1)
  • Κατὰ ταῦτα δὲ καὶ περὶ τῶν ἄλλων ποτῶν, οἱο͂ν τὸ κρίθινον, καὶ τὰ ἀπὸ χλοίησ ποιεύμενα, καὶ τὰ ἀπὸ σταφίδοσ καὶ στεμφύλων καὶ πυρῶν καὶ κνήκου καὶ μύρτων καὶ Ῥοιῆσ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων, ὅταν τινὸσ αὐτέων καιρὸσ ᾖ χρέεσθαι, γεγράψεται παρ’ αὐτέῳ τῷ νουσήματι, ὅκωσ περ καὶ τἄλλα τῶν ξυνθέτων φαρμάκων. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 17.5)

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

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