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χλανίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χλανίς χλανίδος

Structure: χλανιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. an upper-garment of wool, a shawl

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

  • Γέρων δὲ χωρεῖ χλανίδα καὶ κονίποδε ἔχων, καχάζων μεθ’ ἑτέρου νεανίου· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode 4:4)
  • ὡσ ὑμῶν ὃσ ἂν μὴ μῆν’ ἔχῃ, ὅταν ἔχητε χλανίδα λευκήν, τότε μάλισθ’ οὕτω δίκην δώσεθ’ ἡμῖν, πᾶσι τοῖσ ὄρνισι κατατιλώμενοι. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, antepirrheme9)
  • ἀλλὰ γαμικὴν χλανίδα δότω τισ δεῦρό μοι. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 3:43)
  • καὶ Ιἑρώνυμοσ δ’ ὁ Ῥόδιοσ ἐν τοῖσ Ἱστορικοῖσ Ὑπομνήμασίν φησιν ὅτι Σοφοκλῆσ εὐπρεπῆ παῖδα ἔξω τείχουσ ἀπήγαγε χρησόμενοσ αὐτῷ, ὁ μὲν οὖν παῖσ τὸ ἴδιον ἱμάτιον ἐπὶ τῇ πόᾳ ὑπέστρωσεν, τὴν δὲ τοῦ Σοφοκλέουσ χλανίδα περιεβάλοντο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 821)
  • "σοὶ δ’, ὦ πάτερ, Μιλησίαν χλανίδα τῇ δὲ μητρὶ παραλουργὸν ὠνησόμεθα χιτώνιον; (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 14 2:7)

Synonyms

  1. an upper-garment of wool

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

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