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χελύνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χελύνη

Structure: χελυν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: = xei=los

Sense

  1. the lip

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

  • εὐθέωσ γὰρ ἐκδραμόντεσ ξὺν δορὶ ξὺν ἀσπίδι ἐμαχόμεσθ’ αὐτοῖσι, θυμὸν ὀξίνην πεπωκότεσ, στὰσ ἀνὴρ παρ’ ἄνδρ’, ὑπ’ ὀργῆσ τὴν χελύνην ἐσθίων· (Aristophanes, Wasps, Parabasis, epirrheme3)

Synonyms

  1. the lip

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

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