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χοιρίνη?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: choirinē

Principal Part: χοιρίνη

Structure: χοιριν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a small sea-muscle

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χοιρίνη χοιρίνα χοιρίναι
Genitive χοιρίνης χοιρίναιν χοιρινῶν
Dative χοιρίνῃ χοιρίναιν χοιρίναις
Accusative χοιρίνην χοιρίνα χοιρίνας
Vocative χοιρίνη χοιρίνα χοιρίναι

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

  • χοιρίναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 56 3:6)
  • χρὴ δὲ οἶμαι μὴ οὕτως, ἀλλ᾿ 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 οἰσυϊ´νη καὶ χοιρίνη περὶ ταῖς κνήμαις. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 233)

Synonyms

  1. a small sea-muscle

Similar forms

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

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