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τράγημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: τράγημα τράγηματος

Structure: τραγηματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. that which is eaten for eating's sake, dried fruits or sweetmeats, dessert

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

  • τράγημα, μυρτίδεσ, πλακοῦσ, ἀμύγδαλα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 39 4:1)
  • τράγημα δέ ἐστιν πιθήκου τοῦτο δήπου δυστυχοῦσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 445)
  • ἐστὶν δ’ ἡ κοπὶσ δεῖπνον, μᾶζα, ἄρτοσ, κρέασ, λάχανον ὠμόν, ‐ ζωμόσ, σῦκον, τράγημα, θέρμοσ ἀλλὰ μὴν οὐδ’ ὀρθαγορίσκοι λέγονται, ὥσ φησιν ὁ Πολέμων, οἱ γαλαθηνοὶ χοῖροι, ἀλλ’ ὀρθραγορίσκοι, ἐπεὶ πρὸσ τὸν ὄρθρον πιπράσκονται, ὡσ Περσαῖοσ ἱστορεῖ ἐν τῇ Λακωνικῇ πολιτείᾳ καὶ Διοσκουρίδησ ἐν β’ πολιτείασ καὶ Ἀριστοκλῆσ ἐν τῷ προτέρῳ καὶ οὗτοσ τῆσ Λακώνων πολιτείασ ἔτι φησὶν ὁ Πολέμων καὶ τὸ δεῖπνον ὑπὸ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων ἀίκλον προσαγορεύεσθαι, παραπλησίωσ ἁπάντων Δωριέων οὕτωσ αὐτὸ καλούντων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 17 5:1)
  • τὸ δὲ περιαγόμενον ποτήριον οὐ μεῖζον ἦν κοτυλιαίου, τράγημα δὲ θέρμοσ μὲν ἢ κύαμοσ συνεχῶσ, ποτὲ δὲ καὶ τῶν ὡρίων εἰσεφέρετό τι, τοῦ μὲν θέρουσ ἄπιοσ ἢ ῥόα, τοῦ δ’ ἐάροσ ὦχροι, κατὰ δὲ τὴν χειμερινὴν ὡρ́αν ἰσχάδεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 15 2:2)
  • ἑξῆσ δέ φησιν ὅτι ζητήσεισ ἦσαν παρὰ πότον τράγημα γὰρ ὁ σωφρονιστὴσ πᾶσιν ἐν μέσῳ λόγοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 15 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. that which is eaten for eating's sake

Related

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

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