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χειρόμακτρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειρόμακτρον χειρόμακτρου

Structure: χειρομακτρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a cloth for wiping the hands, a towel, napkin

Declension

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

  • "ὅταν δὲ τούτων τινὸσ θίγῃσ, εὐθὺσ ἀποκαθαίρει τὴν χεῖρα εἰσ τὰ χειρόμακτρα, ὡσ πάνυ ἀχθόμενοσ ὅτι κατάπλεά σοι ἀπ’ αὐτῶν ἐγένετο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 79 2:3)
  • "γυναῖκεσ δ’ ἐπὶ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ ἔχουσι χειρόμακτρα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 79 3:1)
  • "καὶ γὰρ ὑμῶν ἑωρακέναι τινὰσ οἰόμαι χειρόμακτρα καὶ δίκτυα καὶ κεκρυφάλουσ ἐκεῖθεν οὔτι περικαομένουσ· (Plutarch, De defectu oraculorum, section 438)
  • ὅτι σε, φάναι, ὁρῶ, ὅταν μὲν τοῦ ἄρτου ἅψῃ, εἰσ οὐδὲν τὴν χεῖρα ἀποψώμενον, ὅταν δὲ τούτων τινὸσ θίγῃσ, εὐθὺσ ἀποκαθαίρει τὴν χεῖρα εἰσ τὰ χειρόμακτρα, ὡσ πάνυ ἀχθόμενοσ ὅτι πλέα σοι ἀπ’ αὐτῶν ἐγένετο. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 6:6)
  • ὃσ γὰρ ἂν πλεῖστα δέρματα χειρόμακτρα ἔχῃ, ἀνὴρ ἄριστοσ οὗτοσ κέκριται. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 64 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a cloth for wiping the hands

Related

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

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