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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

  • λούτρ’ ὡσ τάχιστα τοῖσ ξένοισ τισ αἰρέτω, ὡσ ἀμφὶ βωμὸν στῶσι χερνίβων πέλασ. (Euripides, episode 1:16)
  • κατολοφύρομαι σὲ τὸν χερνίβων ῥανίσι μελόμενον αἱμακταῖσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric1)
  • φεῦ φεῦ χερνίβων <τῶν> ἐκεῖ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric17)
  • χερνίβων γὰρ ἑστήξῃ πέλασ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 2:45)
  • στέφεα περίβολα δίδοτε, φέρετε ‐ πλόκαμοσ ὅδε καταστέφειν ‐ χερνίβων τε παγάσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, lyric2)

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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