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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

  • παρεσκεύαστο δὲ πολλὰ καὶ ποικίλα, δίχηλα ὑειά καὶ σχελίδεσ καὶ ἠτριαία καὶ τοκάδοσ ὑὸσ τὸ ἐμβρυοδόχον ἔντερον καὶ λοβὸσ ἐκ ταγήνου καὶ μυττωτὸσ καὶ ἀβυρτάκη καὶ τοιαῦταί τινεσ καρυκεῖαι καὶ θρυμματίδεσ καὶ θρῖα καὶ μελιτοῦτται· (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 6:3)
  • "σχελίδεσ δ’ ὁλόκνημοι πλησίον τακερώταται ἐπὶ πινακίσκοισ καὶ δίεφθ’ ἀκροκώλια ἥδιστον ἀπατμίζοντα καὶ χόλικεσ βοὸσ καὶ πλευρὰ δελφάκει’ ἐπεξανθισμένα χναυρότατα παρέκειτ’ ἐπ’ ἀμύλοισ καθήμενα, παρῆν δὲ χόνδροσ γἀλακι κατανενιμμένοσ ἐν καταχύτλοισ λεκάναισι καὶ πύου τόμοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:147)
  • σχελίδεσ δ’ ὁλόκνημοι πλησίον τακερώταται ἐπὶ πινακίσκοισ καὶ δίεφθ’ ἀκροκώλια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 49 2:3)

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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