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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

  • ὡσ αἱ τράπεζαί γ’ εἰσὶν ἐπινενησμέναι ἀγαθῶν ἁπάντων καὶ παρεσκευασμέναι, κλῖναί τε σισυρῶν καὶ δαπίδων νενασμέναι, κρατῆρα συγκιρνᾶσιν, αἱ μυροπώλιδεσ ἑστᾶσ’ ἐφεξῆσ, τὰ τεμάχη ῥιπίζεται, λαγῷ’ ἀναπηγνύασι, πόπανα πέττεται, στέφανοι πλέκονται, φρύγεται τραγήματα, χύτρασ ἔτνουσ ἕψουσιν αἱ νεώταται. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 4:2)
  • ἐμοῦ γὰρ αὐτῷ τὸν πλακοῦντα τουτονὶ καὶ τἄλλα τἀπὶ τοῦ πίνακοσ τραγήματα ἐπόντα πεμψάσησ ὑπειπούσησ θ’ ὅτι εἰσ ἑσπέραν ἥξοιμι ‐ τί σ’ ἔδρασ’; (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode30)
  • μὰ τὸν Ἀπόλλω οὐ μή σ’ ἐγὼ περιόψομἀπελθόντ’, ἐπεί τοι καὶ κρέα ἀνέβραττεν ὀρνίθεια, καὶ τραγήματα ἔφρυγε, κᾦνον ἀνεκεράννυ γλυκύτατον. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 1:6)
  • ᾠὰ γάρ ἐστι καὶ πεμμάτια καὶ τραγήματα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 5 2:2)
  • ̔ Ἡρακλείδησ δὲ ὁ Ταραντῖνοσ ζητεῖ πότερον προπαρατίθεσθαι δεῖ τὰ τραγήματα, καθάπερ ἔν τισι τόποισ τῶν κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν καὶ τὴν Ἑλλάδα γίνεται ἢ οὔ, ἀλλὰ μετὰ τὸ δεῖπνον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 41 1:2)

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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