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συλόνυξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: συλόνυξ συλόνυχος

Structure: συλονυχ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: sula/w

Sense

  1. paring the nails

Declension

Third 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

  • Εὐγάθησ Λαπιθανὸσ ἐσοπτρίδα, καὶ φιλέθειρον σινδόνα, καὶ πετάσου φάρσοσ ὑποξύριον, καὶ ψήκτραν δονακῖτιν ἀπέπτυσε, καὶ λιποκόπτουσ φασγανίδασ, καὶ τοὺσ συλόνυχασ στόνυχασ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 3071)

Synonyms

  1. paring the nails

Similar forms

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

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