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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

  • τὴν γάρ τοι ἀρχὴν τῶν τοιούτων παρανομημάτων καὶ τὴν αἰτίαν τοῦ νοθευθῆναι ἡμῶν τὸ ξυνέδριον σύ, ὦ Ζεῦ, παρέσχεσ θνηταῖσ ἐπιμιγνύμενοσ καὶ κατιὼν παρ’ αὐτὰσ ἐν ἄλλοτε ἄλλῳ σχήματι, ὥστε ἡμᾶσ δεδιέναι μή σε καταθύσῃ τισ ξυλλαβών, ὁπόταν ταῦροσ ᾖσ, ἢ τῶν χρυσοχόων τισ κατεργάσηται χρυσὸν ὄντα, καὶ ἀντὶ Διὸσ ἢ ὁρ́μοσ ἢ ψέλιον ἢ ἐλλόβιον ἡμῖν γένῃ. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 6:12)
  • φημὶ γὰρ οὖν καὶ γυναιξὶ καλαῖσ οὐχ ὅπωσ συλλαμβάνειν ἐσ τὸ εὐμορφότερον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐναντιοῦσθαι τὸν κόσμον τὸν πολύν, ὁπόταν τῶν ἐντυγχανόντων ἕκαστοσ ὑπὸ τοῦ χρυσοῦ καὶ τῶν λίθων τῶν πολυτελῶν ἐκπλαγεὶσ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπαινεῖν ἢ ’ χρόαν ἢ βλέμμα ἢ δειρὴν ἢ πῆχυν ἢ δάκτυλον, ὁ δὲ ταῦτ’ ἀφεὶσ ἐσ τὴν σαρδὼ ἢ τὸν σμάραγδον ἢ τὸν ὁρ́μον ἢ τὸ ψέλιον ἀποβλέπῃ, ὥστε ἄχθοιτο ἂν εἰκότωσ παρορωμένη διὰ τὸν κόσμον, οὐκ ἀγόντων σχολὴν ἐπαινεῖν αὐτὴν τῶν θεατῶν, ἀλλὰ πάρεργον αὐτῆσ ποιουμένων τὴν θέαν. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 15:4)
  • αἱ δὲ γυναῖκεσ αὐτῶν ψέλιον περὶ ἑκατέρῃ τῶν κνημέων φορέουσι χάλκεον· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 168 2:3)
  • ἡ δὲ σεμνὴ καὶ μεγάλη κατ’ Αἴγυπτον Ἀλεξάνδρου πόλισ ἐγκαλλώπισμα τῆσ ὑμετέρασ γέγονεν ἡγεμονίασ, ὥσπερ γυναικὸσ πλουσίασ ὁρ́μοσ ἢ ψέλιον ἐν πολλοῖσ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ κτήμασι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 28:6)

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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