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χέρνιβον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χέρνιβον χέρνιβου

Structure: χερνιβ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from xerni/ptomai

Sense

  1. a vessel for water to wash the hands, a basin

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χέρνιβον χερνίβω χέρνιβα
Genitive χερνίβου χερνίβοιν χερνίβων
Dative χερνίβῳ χερνίβοιν χερνίβοις
Accusative χέρνιβον χερνίβω χέρνιβα
Vocative χέρνιβον χερνίβω χέρνιβα

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

  • ἄγε δὴ τὸ κανοῦν λαβὼν σὺ καὶ τὴν χέρνιβα περίιθι τὸν βωμὸν ταχέωσ ἐπιδέξια. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:1)
  • παῖ παῖ, τὸ κανοῦν αἴρεσθε καὶ τὴν χέρνιβα. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene40)
  • αὖθισ σὺ περιχώρει λαβὼν τὴν χέρνιβα. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, iambics10)
  • Σῆμοσ δ’ ἐν ἕκτῳ Δηλιάδοσ Ἀθηναίοισ φησί, θυομένοισ ἐν Δήλῳ τὴν χέρνιβα βάψασ ὁ παῖσ προσήνεγκε κἀν τῇ φιάλῃ μετὰ τοῦ ὕδατοσ ἰχθῦσ κατέχεεν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 3 1:3)
  • "’ ἀλλὰ δεῖξον χέρνιβα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 28 3:50)

Synonyms

  1. a vessel for water to wash the hands

Related

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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