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χηλός

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χηλός χηλοῦ

Structure: χηλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a large chest or coffer

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

  • "δεῦρο, γύναι, φέρε χηλὸν ἀριπρεπέ’, ἥ τισ ἀρίστη· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 56:1)
  • τόφρα δ’ ἄρ’ Ἀρήτη ξείνῳ περικαλλέα χηλὸν ἐξέφερεν θαλάμοιο, τίθει δ’ ἐνὶ κάλλιμα δῶρα, ἐσθῆτα χρυσόν τε, τά οἱ Φαίηκεσ ἔδωκαν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 58:4)
  • Ἀρήτη δ’ ἄρα οἱ δμῳὰσ ἅμ’ ἔπεμπε γυναῖκασ, τὴν μὲν φᾶροσ ἔχουσαν ἐϋπλυνὲσ ἠδὲ χιτῶνα, τὴν δ’ ἑτέρην χηλὸν πυκινὴν ἅμ’ ὄπασσε κομίζειν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 13 10:2)

Synonyms

  1. a large chest or coffer

Related

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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