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χλούνης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χλούνης χλούνου

Structure: χλουν (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Sense

  1. couching in the greenwood

Declension

First 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

  • ἔγραφε δ’ ὡνὴρ εὖ παρ’ Ὁμηρείην ἀγλαίην ἐπέων πισσύγγουσ ἢ φῶρασ ἀναιδέασ ἤ τινα χλούνην, φλύοντ’ ἀνθηρῇ σὺν κακοδαιμονίῃ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 56 2:2)
  • ἣ δὲ χολωσαμένη δῖον γένοσ ἰοχέαιρα ὦρσεν ἔπι χλούνην σῦν ἄγριον ἀργιόδοντα, ὃσ κακὰ πόλλ’ ἑρ́δεσκεν ἔθων Οἰνῆοσ ἀλωήν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 9 28:1)

Synonyms

  1. couching in the greenwood

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

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