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χέρνιψ

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χέρνιψ χέρνιβος

Structure: χερνιβ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from xerni/ptomai

Sense

  1. water for washing the hands
  2. purifications with holy water, the use thereof, the use of it, therein
  3. libations

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χέρνιψ χέρνιβε χέρνιβες
Genitive χέρνιβος χερνίβοιν χερνίβων
Dative χέρνιβι χερνίβοιν χέρνιψιν*
Accusative χέρνιβα χέρνιβε χέρνιβας
Vocative χέρνιψ χέρνιβε χέρνιβες

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. water for washing the hands

  2. libations

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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