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χέννιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χέννιον χέννιου

Structure: χεννι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. quail

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χέννιον χεννίω χέννια
Genitive χεννίου χεννίοιν χεννίων
Dative χεννίῳ χεννίοιν χεννίοις
Accusative χέννιον χεννίω χέννια
Vocative χέννιον χεννίω χέννια

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

  • τῶν δὲ καλουμένων χεννίων μικρὸν δ’ ἐστὶν ὀρτύγιον μνημονεύει Κλεομένησ ἐν τῇ πρὸσ Ἀλέξανδρον ἐπιστολῇ γράφων οὕτωσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 47 4:2)
  • "φαληρίδασ ταριχηρὰσ μυρίασ, τυλάδασ πεντακισχιλίασ, χέννια ταριχηρὰ μύρια. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 47 4:3)
  • οὐδέ μοι Αἰγυπτίων βίοσ ἤρεσεν οἱο͂ν ἔχουσι, χέννια τίλλοντεσ καὶ κιττία δεισαλέ’ ὄντα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 47 4:5)
  • ἡμεῖσ δ’ ἐσθίομεν κεκλημένοι ἁλμυρὰ πάντα, χέννια, καὶ τυρούσ, χηνὸσ ἁλιστὰ λίπη, ὄρνια καὶ μόσχεια· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 377 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. quail

Similar forms

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

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