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χύτρα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χύτρα

Structure: χυτρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: xe/w

Sense

  1. an earthen pot, a pot for boiling, pipkin
  2. pots of pulse

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

  • καὶ μὴν πολὺ τῶν ἄλλων χυτρῶν τἀναντία αὗται ποιοῦσι· (Aristophanes, Plutus, Episode28)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐγώ τοί σοι λέγω, ὅτι μένοντε δεῖ μάχεσθαι λαμβάνειν τε τῶν χυτρῶν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, antepirrheme7)
  • εἴπερ ἡ χύτρα κεκεραμευμένη εἰή ὑπὸ ἀγαθοῦ κεραμέωσ λεία καὶ στρογγύλη καὶ καλῶσ ὠπτημένη, οἱαῖ τῶν καλῶν χυτρῶν εἰσί τινεσ δίωτοι, τῶν ἓξ χοᾶσ χωρουσῶν, πάγκαλαι, εἰ τοιαύτην ἐρωτῴη χύτραν, καλὴν ὁμολογητέον εἶναι. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 46:5)
  • ὦ ἄνθρωπε, ἀγνοεῖσ ὅτι τὸ τοῦ Ἡρακλείτου εὖ ἔχει, ὡσ ἄρα "πιθήκων ὁ κάλλιστοσ αἰσχρὸσ ἀνθρώπων γένει συμβάλλειν," καὶ χυτρῶν ἡ καλλίστη αἰσχρὰ παρθένων γένει συμβάλλειν, ὥσ φησιν Ἱππίασ ὁ σοφόσ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 49:3)
  • τὸ τῶν παρθένων γένοσ θεῶν γένει ἄν τισ συμβάλλῃ, οὐ ταὐτὸν πείσεται ὅπερ τὸ τῶν χυτρῶν τῷ τῶν παρθένων συμβαλλόμενον; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 49:9)

Synonyms

  1. pots of pulse

Related

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

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