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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

  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ τῶν συνδείπνων ἀκόλουθοι ὁρῶντεσ ἐκπεπληγμένον εἰσ τὴν ἀπειρίαν τῶν δρωμένων ἀποσκώπτουσι, τεκμήριον τοῦ μὴ παρ’ ἄλλῳ πρότερόν σε δεδειπνηκέναι τὸ καινὸν εἶναί σοι τὸ χειρόμακτρον τιθέμενοι. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 15:4)
  • χειρόμακτρον δὲ καλεῖται ᾧ τὰσ χεῖρασ ἀπεμάττοντο ὠμολίνῳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 79 1:1)
  • φέρε, παῖ, ταχέωσ κατὰ χειρὸσ ὕδωρ, παράπεμπε τὸ χειρόμακτρον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 79 1:4)
  • σκυθιστὶ χειρόμακτρον ἐκκεκαρμένοσ καὶ Ἡρόδοτοσ ἐν δευτέρᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 79 2:2)
  • "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)
  • "καί μιν πάλιν ἀναφικέσθαι δῶρον ἔχοντα παρ’ αὐτῆσ χειρόμακτρον χρύσεον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 79 3:4)

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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