Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τερηδών

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τερηδών τερηδόνος

Structure: τερηδων (Stem)

Etym.: tei/rw

Sense

  1. the wood-worm

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

  • σὺ δ’ ὦ Τερηδὼν ἐπαναφύσα Περσικόν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode12)
  • ἀποτρόπαἰ οὐ δῆτ’ ἐμοῦ γ’ ἄρξει ποτ’, ἀλλ’ ἐάν με χρῇ, ὑπὸ τερηδόνων σαπεῖσ’ ἐνταῦθα καταγηράσομαι· (Aristotle, Parabasis, antepirrheme5)
  • θριπὸσ ἐγὼ καὶ σύρμα τερηδόνοσ εἴθε γενοίμην, ὡσ ἀναπηδήσασ τὰ ξύλα ταῦτα φάγω. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1902)
  • "σκόπει δ’ ὅτι σκνῖπεσ ἐν δένδρῳ καὶ τερηδόνεσ ἐμφύονται ξύλῳ κατὰ σῆψιν ὑγρότητοσ ἢ πέψιν· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 2, 10:15)
  • ἀπὸ γὰρ τῆσ κατὰ Θάψακόν φησι διαβάσεωσ παρὰ τὸν Εὐφράτην εἰσ μὲν Βαβυλῶνα σταδίουσ εἶναι τετρακισχιλίουσ ὀκτακοσίουσ, ἐντεῦθεν δ’ ἐπὶ τὰσ ἐκβολὰσ τοῦ Εὐφράτου καὶ πόλιν Τερηδόνα τρισχιλίουσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 1 50:2)

Synonyms

  1. the wood-worm

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

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