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στωμυλία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: στωμυλία

Structure: στωμυλι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. wordiness, small talk

Declension

First 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

  • εἶτ’ αὖ λαλιὰν ἐπιτηδεῦσαι καὶ στωμυλίαν ἐδίδαξασ, ἣ ’ξεκένωσεν τάσ τε παλαίστρασ καὶ τὰσ πυγὰσ ἐνέτριψεν τῶν μειρακίων στωμυλλομένων, καὶ τοὺσ Παράλουσ ἀνέπεισεν ἀνταγορεύειν τοῖσ ἄρχουσιν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Agon, Antepirrheme 1:24)

Synonyms

  1. wordiness

Related

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

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