Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὑπαυχένιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπαυχένιος ὑπαυχένιᾱ ὑπαυχένιον

Structure: ὑπαυχενι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. under the neck, a cushion for the neck

Declension

First/Second 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

  • κἀπειδὴ κατακλίνεσθαι καιρὸσ ἦν, πρῶτον μὲν ἀράμενοι ἀνέθεσαν τὸν Θεσμόπολιν οὐκ ἀπραγμόνωσ μὰ Δία πέντε οἶμαι νεανίσκοι εὐμεγέθεισ, ὑπαυχένια περιβύσαντεσ αὐτῷ πάντοθεν, ὡσ διαμένοι ἐν τῷ σχήματι καὶ ἐπὶ πολὺ καρτερεῖν δύναιτο. (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 11:3)

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

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