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χοιρίνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χοιρίνη

Structure: χοιριν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a small sea-muscle

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

  • χρὴ δὲ οἶμαι μὴ οὕτωσ, ἀλλ̓ ὅμοια τὰ πάντα καὶ ὁμόχροα εἶναι καὶ συνᾷδον τῇ κεφαλῇ τὸ ἄλλο σῶμα, ὡσ μὴ χρυσοῦν μὲν τὸ κράνοσ εἰή, θώραξ δὲ πάνυ γελοῖοσ ἐκ ῥακῶν ποθεν ἢ ἐκ δερμάτων σαπρῶν συγκεκαττυμένοσ καὶ ἡ ἀσπὶσ οἰσυΐνη καὶ χοιρίνη περὶ ταῖσ κνήμαισ. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 233)

Synonyms

  1. a small sea-muscle

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

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