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ὑποθυμίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑποθυμίς ὑποθυμίδος

Structure: ὑποθυμιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: qumo/s

Sense

  1. a garland worn on the neck

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

  • κίττα τρυγὼν κορυδὸσ ἐλεᾶσ ὑποθυμὶσ περιστερὰ νέρτοσ ἱέραξ φάττα κόκκυξ ἐρυθρόπουσ κεβλήπυρισ πορφυρὶσ κερχνῂσ κολυμβὶσ ἀμπελὶσ φήην δρύοψ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parodos, lyric48)
  • ἐστεφανοῦντο δὲ καὶ τὰ στήθη καὶ ἐμύρουν ταῦτα, ἐπεὶ αὐτόθι ἡ καρδία, ἐκάλουν δὲ καὶ οἷσ περιεδέοντο τὸν τράχηλον στεφάνουσ ὑποθυμίδασ,6 ὡσ Ἀλκαῖοσ ἐν τούτοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 16 2:4)
  • ἀλλ’ ἀνήτω μὲν περὶ ταῖσ δέραισι περθέτω πλεκτὰσ ὑποθυμίδασ τίσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 16 3:1)
  • καὶ πολλαὶσ ὑποθυμίδασ πλεκταὶσ ἀμπ’ ἀπαλᾷ δέρᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 16 3:3)
  • καὶ Ἀνακρέων πλεκτὰσ δ’ ὑποθυμίδασ περὶ στήθεσι λωτίνασ ἔθεντο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 16 3:4)
  • Τιμαχίδασ δέ φησιν τὰ παντοδαπὰ στεφανώματα ἃ τὰσ γυναῖκασ φορεῖν οὕτωσ καλεῖσθαι ὑποθυμὶσ δὲ καὶ ὑποθυμίδεσ στέφανοι παρ’ Αἰολεῦσιν καὶ Ιὤσιν, οὓσ περὶ τοὺσ τραχήλουσ περιετίθεντο, ὡσ σαφῶσ ἔστιν μαθεῖν ἐκ τῆσ Ἀλκαίου καὶ Ἀνακρέοντοσ ποιήσεωσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 22 2:6)

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

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