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χέρνιψ

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χέρνιψ χέρνιβος

Structure: χερνιβ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from xerni/ptomai

Sense

water for washing the hands
purifications with holy water, the use thereof, the use of it, therein
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

λαβοῦσα δ’ ὑμᾶσ λοιδορῆσαι βούλομαι κοινῇ δικαίωσ, οἳ μιᾶσ ἐκ χέρνιβοσ βωμοὺσ περιρραίνοντεσ ὥσπερ ξυγγενεῖσ Ὀλυμπίασιν, ἐν Πύλαισ, Πυθοῖ πόσουσ εἴποιμ’ ἂν ἄλλουσ, εἴ με μηκύνειν δέοι; (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Choral, anapests 1:8)
ἔτι δὲ παρελθὼν τὸν νόμον ὃν ὑμεῖσ ἔθεσθε, εἴργεσθαι τῶν ἱερῶν αὐτὸν ὡσ ἀλιτήριον ὄντα, ταῦτα πάντα βιασάμενοσ εἰσελήλυθεν ἡμῶν εἰσ τὴν πόλιν, καὶ ἔθυσεν ἐπὶ τῶν βωμῶν ὧν οὐκ ἐξῆν αὐτῷ καὶ ἀπήντα τοῖσ ἱεροῖσ περὶ ἃ ἠσέβησεν, εἰσῆλθεν εἰσ τὸ Ἐλευσίνιον, ἐχερνίψατο ἐκ τῆσ ἱερᾶσ χέρνιβοσ. (Lysias, Speeches, 66:2)
ἐν τοίνυν τοῖσ περὶ τούτων νόμοισ ὁ Δράκων φοβερὸν κατασκευάζων καὶ δεινὸν τό τιν’ αὐτόχειρ’ ἄλλον ἄλλου γίγνεσθαι, καὶ γράφων χέρνιβοσ εἴργεσθαι τὸν ἀνδροφόνον, σπονδῶν, κρατήρων, ἱερῶν, ἀγορᾶσ, πάντα τἄλλα διελθὼν οἷσ μάλιστ’ ἄν τινασ ᾤετ’ ἐπισχεῖν τοῦ τοιοῦτόν τι ποιεῖν, ὅμωσ οὐκ ἀφείλετο τὴν τοῦ δικαίου τάξιν, ἀλλ’ ἔθηκεν ἐφ’ οἷσ ἐξεῖναι ἀποκτιννύναι, κἂν οὕτω τισ δράσῃ, καθαρὸν διώρισεν εἶναι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 212:1)

Synonyms

water for washing the hands
- νίπτρον (water for washing)
- χέρνιβον (a vessel for water to wash the hands, a basin)
- ποδάνιπτρον (water for washing the feet in)
- λουτρόν (a bath, bathing place, baths)
libations
- σπονδή (libation)
- ἐπίσπεισις (a libation over)
- λουτρόν (libations to the dead)
- σπονδαρχία (the beginning of the libation, the right of beginning it)

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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water for washing the hands

libations

Similar forms

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