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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

  • αἱ δὲ σκυζόμεναι γυμνοῖσ ποσὶν οἴκαδ’ ἰάσι, πολλά με τωθάζοισαι, ὅ τ’ ἀλιθίαν ὁδὸν ἦνθον, ὀκνηραὶ δὲ πάλιν κενεᾶσ ἐν πυθμένι χηλοῦ ψυχροῖσ ἐν γονάτεσσι κάρη μίμνοντι βαλοῖσαι, ἔνθ’ αἰεί σφισιν ἕδρα, ἐπὴν ἄπρηκτοι ἵκωνται. (Theocritus, Idylls, 5)
  • αὐτὰρ Ἀχιλλεὺσ βῆ ῥ’ ἴμεν ἐσ κλισίην, χηλοῦ δ’ ἀπὸ πῶμ’ ἀνέῳγε καλῆσ δαιδαλέησ, τήν οἱ Θέτισ ἀργυρόπεζα θῆκ’ ἐπὶ νηὸσ ἄγεσθαι ἐὺ̈ πλήσασα χιτώνων χλαινάων τ’ ἀνεμοσκεπέων οὔλων τε ταπήτων. (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 16:7)

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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