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

  • θριπὸσ ἐγὼ καὶ σύρμα τερηδόνοσ εἴθε γενοίμην, ὡσ ἀναπηδήσασ τὰ ξύλα ταῦτα φάγω. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 12, chapter 1902)
  • ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ στόματοσ ἡ ἐν δεξιᾷ παραλία περιφερὴσ οὖσα κατ’ ἀρχὰσ μὲν ἀπὸ τῆσ Καρμανίασ πρὸσ ἑώ μικρόν, εἶτα πρὸσ ἄρκτον νεύει, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα πρὸσ τὴν ἑσπέραν μέχρι Τερηδόνοσ καὶ τῆσ ἐκβολῆσ τοῦ Εὐφράτου· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 3 4:3)
  • λέγειν δέ φησιν ἐκεῖνον περιπεπλευκότα στόλῳ τὸν κόλπον, ὅτι ἀπὸ Τερηδόνοσ ἑξῆσ ἐν δεξιᾷ ἔχοντι τὴν ἤπειρον ὁ παράπλουσ ἔχει προκειμένην νῆσον Ἴκαρον, καὶ ἱερὸν Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἅγιον ἐν αὐτῇ καὶ μαντεῖον Ταυροπόλου. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 3 4:11)
  • διέχουσι δὲ αἱ νῆσοι αὗται Τερηδόνοσ μὲν δεχήμερον πλοῦν, τῆσ δὲ κατὰ τὸ στόμα ἄκρασ τῆσ ἐν Μάκαισ ἡμερήσιον. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 3 8:3)

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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