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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

  • ἅλμαν δ’ ὕπερθεν τεᾶν κομᾶν βαθεῖαν παριόντοσ κύματοσ οὐκ ἀλέγεισ οὐδ’ ἀνέμου φθόγγον, πορφυρέᾳ κείμενοσ ἐν χλανίδι πρὸσ κόλπῳ καλὸν πρόσωπον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2643)
  • "προσκεφάλαια δ’ εἶχε τρία μὲν ὑπὸ τῇ κεφαλῇ βύσσινα παραλουργῆ, δι’ ὧν ἠμύνετο τὸ καῦμα, δύο δ’ ὑπὸ τοῖσ ποσὶ ὑσγινοβαφῆ τῶν Δωρικῶν καλουμένων ἐφ’ ὧν κατέκειτο ἐν λευκῇ χλανίδι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 67 2:3)
  • ἅμα δὲ καὶ προήγαγε τῶν παίδων Ἀλέξανδρον μὲν ἐσθῆτι Μηδικῇ τιάραν καὶ κίταριν ὀρθὴν ἐχούσῃ, Πτολεμαῖον δὲ κρηπῖσι καὶ χλανίδι καὶ καυσίᾳ διαδηματοφόρῳ κεκοσμημένον. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 54 5:1)
  • ὄρθρε, τί νῦν, δυσέραστε, βραδὺσ περὶ κόσμον ἑλίσσῃ, ἄλλοσ ἐπεὶ Δημοῦσ θάλπεθ’ ὑπὸ χλανίδι; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1731)

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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