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τολύπη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τολύπη

Structure: τολυπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a clew or ball of wool

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ ἐξῆλθεν εἰσ τὸν ἀγρὸν συλλέξαι ἀριὼθ καὶ εὗρεν ἄμπελον ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ καὶ συνέλεξεν ἀπ̓ αὐτῆσ τολύπην ἀγρίαν πλῆρεσ τὸ ἱμάτιον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐνέβαλεν εἰσ τὸν λέβητα τοῦ ἑψέματοσ, ὅτι οὐκ ἔγνωσαν. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 4:39)
  • κᾆτ’ ἀπὸ τούτων πάντων τὸ κάταγμα λαβόντασ δεῦρο ξυνάγειν καὶ συναθροίξειν εἰσ ἕν, κἄπειτα ποιῆσαι τολύπην μεγάλην κᾆτ’ ἐκ ταύτησ τῷ δήμῳ χλαῖναν ὑφῆναι. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Agon, antepirrheme23)
  • καὶ τάλαρον σχοίνοισ ὑφασμένον, ὃν ποτ’ ὀδόντι ἐπλήρου τολύπη πᾶσα καθαιρομένη, σοί, φιλέριθε κόρη Παλλαντιάσ, ἡ βαθύγηρωσ Αἰσιόνη, πενίησ δῶρον, ἀνεκρέμασεν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 247 1:1)

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

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