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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

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)
  • θνῄσκουσι δ’ οὓσ ἂν χέρνιβεσ βάλωσ’ ἐμαί. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 3:7)
  • χέρνιβασ δὲ καὶ κατάργματα οὐκ ἂν φθάνοισ ἂν εὐτρεπῆ ποιουμένη. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode5)
  • οὔκουν ἐν ἔργῳ χέρνιβεσ ξίφοσ τε σόν; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode45)
  • ὡσ χέρνιβεσ πάρεισιν εὐτρεπισμέναι, προχύται τε βάλλειν πῦρ καθάρσιον χεροῖν, μόσχοι τε, πρὸ γάμων ἃσ θεᾷ πεσεῖν χρεών. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode7)
  • ποία δὲ χέρνιψ φρατέρων προσδέξεται; (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 5:11)

Synonyms

  1. water for washing the hands

  2. libations

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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