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χαμαιλέων?

Third declension Noun; Masculine 동물 식물 Transliteration: chamaileōn

Principal Part: χαμαιλέων χαμαιλέοντος

Structure: χαμαιλεοντ (Stem)

Sense

  1. chameleon
  2. type of plant, so called because of its colour-changing leaves

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

  • μυγάλη καὶ χαμαιλέων, καὶ χαλαβώτης καὶ σαῦρα καὶ ἀσπάλαξ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 11:30)
  • οἶδα δὲ καὶ ἃ ὁ Ἑρμιονεὺς Λᾶσος ἔπαιξε περὶ ἰχθύων, ἅπερ Χαμαιλέων ἀνέγραψεν ὁ ῾ Ἡρακλεώτης ἐν τῷ περὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ Λάσου συγγράμματι λέγων ὧδε: (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 201)
  • χαμαιλέων γοῦν πρῶτον αὐτόν φησι σχηματίσαι τοὺς χοροὺς ὀρχηστοδιδασκάλοις οὐ χρησάμενον, ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτὸν τοῖς χοροῖς τὰ σχήματα ποιοῦντα τῶν ὀρχήσεων, καὶ ὅλως πᾶσαν τὴν τῆς τραγῳδίας οἰκονομίαν εἰς ἑαυτὸν περιιστάντα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 392)
  • δὲ ἐποίει τὰς τραγῳδίας Αἰσχύλος, ὥς φησι Χαμαιλέων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 39 3:2)
  • οἳ ὑπὸ γλωσσαλγίας ἐπιλελῆσθαί μοι δοκοῦσι καὶ τοῦ Πυθικοῦ χρησμοῦ, ὃν ἀναγράφει Χαμαιλέων εἴκοσι τὰς πρὸ κυνὸς καὶ εἴκοσι τὰς μετέπειτα οἴκῳ ἐνὶ σκιερῷ Διονύσῳ χρῆσθαι ἰητρῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 41 1:2)

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