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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

  • ἀπὸ τῆσ μὲν ὄψεωσ Ἑλληνικὸσ λευκὴ χλανίσ, φαιὸσ χιτωνίσκοσ καλόσ, πιλίδιον ἁπαλόν, εὔρυθμοσ βακτηρία, βαυκὶσ τρυφῶσα τί μακρὰ δεῖ λέγειν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 63 5:5)
  • ἦν δέ τισ ὑφαινομένη χλανὶσ αὐτῷ πολὺν χρόνον, ἔργον ὑπερήφανον, εἴκασμα τοῦ κόσμου καὶ τῶν κατ’ οὐρανὸν φαινομένων· (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 41 4:2)

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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