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στρόφιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: στρόφιον στρόφιου

Structure: στροφι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: stro/fos의 지소사

Sense

  1. a band worn by women
  2. a headband worn by priests

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

  • τί λήκυθοσ καὶ στρόφιον; (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics9)
  • Ἀγάθων, ἐπειδὴ σαυτὸν ἐπιδοῦναι φθονεῖσ, ἀλλ’ ἱμάτιον γοῦν χρῆσον ἡμῖν τουτῳὶ καὶ στρόφιον· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 2:64)
  • αἶρε νῦν στρόφιον. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics 2:73)
  • χάλα ταχέωσ τὸ στρόφιον ὦναίσχυντε σύ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode 1:20)
  • τὸ στρόφιον ἤδη λύομαι. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Lyric-Scene 2:27)

Synonyms

  1. a headband worn by priests

Related

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

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