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ψέλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψέλιον

Structure: ψελι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. an armlet or anklet

Declension

Second 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 τὴν σύνθεσιν τοῦ κόσμου τῆσ δόξησ καὶ τοὺσ χλιδῶνασ, καὶ τὰ ψέλια καὶ τὸ ἐμπλόκιον καὶ τὰ περιδέξια καὶ τοὺσ δακτυλίουσ καὶ τὰ ἐνώτια (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 3:20)
  • καὶ ἐκόσμημά σε κόσμῳ καὶ περιέθηκα ψέλια περὶ τὰσ χεῖράσ σου καὶ κάθεμα περὶ τὸν τράχηλόν σου (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 16:11)
  • καὶ τότε μὲν ὁ Κίμων ἀπῄει γελοῖοσ εἶναι δοκῶν διανομεύσ, τῶν μὲν συμμάχων ψέλια χρυσᾶ καὶ μανιάκασ καὶ στρεπτοὺσ καὶ κάνδυασ καὶ πορφύραν φερομένων, τῶν δ’ Ἀθηναίων γυμνὰ σώματα κακῶσ ἠσκημένα πρὸσ ἐργασίαν παραλαβόντων. (Plutarch, , chapter 9 3:3)
  • "ὡσ καλὴν μὲν ἐσθῆτά σοι ταύτην, ὦ Μιθριδάτα, ὁ βασιλεὺσ δέδωκε, καλὰ δὲ στρεπτὰ καὶ ψέλια· (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 15 2:1)
  • "τὸ δ’ ἐστὶν ἁδρὸν καὶ πρόμηκεσ, ἔχον ἐν αὑτῷ σάρκα καὶ μεγάλην καὶ λευκήν, εὐώδη σφόδρα, ἐξ ὧν ἐξαιροῦντεσ ὀστᾶ λευκὰ προσαγορεύουσι μὲν μαργαρίτασ, κατασκευάζουσι δ’ ἐξ αὐτῶν ὁρμίσκουσ τε καὶ ψέλια περὶ τὰσ χεῖρασ καὶ τοὺσ πόδασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 45 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. an armlet or anklet

Related

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

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