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ταρίχευσις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: taricheusis

Principal Part: ταρίχευσις ταρίχευσεως

Structure: ταριχευσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from ταρι_χεύω

Sense

  1. embalming
  2. pickling, salting

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

  • ἐπεὰν δὲ ταῦτα ποιήσωσι, οὕτω ἐς τὴν ταρίχευσιν κομίζουσι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 85 3:1)
  • ἡ δὲ τρίτη ταρίχευσις ἐστὶ ἥδε, ἣ τοὺς χρήμασι ἀσθενεστέρους σκευάζει: (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 88 2:1)
  • κήτεά τε μεγάλα ἀνάκανθα, τὰ ἀντακαίους καλέουσι, παρέχεται ἐς ταρίχευσιν, ἄλλα τε πολλὰ θωμάσαι ἄξια. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 53 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. embalming

  2. pickling

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

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