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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

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

  • καὶ πάλιν ὁ Οὐλπιανὸσ ἐζήτει εἰ τὸ χέρνιβον εἴρηται, καθάπερ ἡμεῖσ λέγομεν ἐν τῇ συνηθείᾳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 74 1:10)
  • ἦ ῥα καὶ ἀμφίπολον ταμίην ὤτρυν’ ὁ γεραιὸσ χερσὶν ὕδωρ ἐπιχεῦαι ἀκήρατον ἡ δὲ παρέστη χέρνιβον ἀμφίπολοσ πρόχοὸν θ’ ἅμα χερσὶν ἔχουσα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 75 1:1)
  • ἣ δὲ παρέστη χέρνιβον ἀμφίπολοσ πρόχοόν θ’ ἅμα χερσὶν ἔχουσα. (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 28:2)

Synonyms

  1. a vessel for water to wash 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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