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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

  • ὅδ’ ἐκεῖνοσ ὁρᾶν τεττιγοφόρασ, ἀρχαίῳ σχήματι λαμπρόσ, οὐ χοιρινῶν ὄζων ἀλλὰ σπονδῶν, σμύρνῃ κατάλειπτοσ. (Aristotle, Choral, anapests14)
  • "τῶν δὲ στρόμβων καὶ χοιρίνων καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν κογχυλίων ποικίλαι αἱ ἰδέαι καὶ πολὺ διάφοροι τῶν παρ’ ἡμῖν γίνονται δὲ πορφύραι τε καὶ ὀστρέων πολὺ πλῆθοσ τῶν λοιπῶν ἓν δὲ ἴδιον ὃ καλοῦσιν ἐκεῖνοι βέρβερι, ἐξ οὗ ἡ μαργαρῖτισ λίθοσ γίνεται, αὕτη δ’ ἐστὶ πολυτελὴσ κατὰ τὴν Ἀσίαν καὶ πωλεῖται περὶ Πέρσασ τε καὶ τοὺσ ἄνω τόπουσ πρὸσ χρυσίον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 457)

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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