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σχελίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σχελίς σχελίδος

Structure: σχελιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. ribs of beef

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

  • ἀλλὰ σχελίδασ ἐδηδοκὼσ ὠνήσομαι μέταλλα. (Aristotle, Agon, epirrheme29)
  • εἶτα δίεφθ’ ἀκροκώλια σχελίδασ τε μετ’ αὐτῶν λευκοφορινοχρόουσ, ῥύγχη, κεφάλαια πόδασ τε χναυμάτιόν τε σεσιλφιωμένον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 28 4:1)
  • "ὁ πᾶσ αὐτῶν πλοῦτοσ ηὑρέθη μετὰ τὴν ὑπ’ Ἀλεξάνδρου τῆσ πόλεωσ κατασκαφὴν ἐν ταλάντοισ τετρακοσίοισ τεσσαράκοντα, φησίν, ὅτι τε μικρόψυχοι ἦσαν καὶ τὰ περὶ τὴν τροφὴν λίχνοι, παρασκευάζοντεσ ἐν τοῖσ δείπνοισ θρῖα καὶ ἑψητοὺσ καὶ ἀφύασ καὶ ἐγκρασιχόλουσ καὶ ἀλλᾶντασ καὶ σχελίδασ καὶ ἔτνοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 301)

Synonyms

  1. ribs of beef

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

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