Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

χειρονομία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χειρονομία

Structure: χειρονομι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. gesticulation

Declension

First 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

  • καλεῖται δ’ ἡ πυρρίχη καὶ χειρονομία, ἡ δ’ ὑπορχηματική ἐστιν ἐν ᾗ ᾄδων ὁ χορὸσ ὀρχεῖται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 30 1:2)

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

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