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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 ὁ Λύσανδροσ ἔφη, ἀποβλέψασ εἰσ αὐτὸν καὶ ἰδὼν τῶν τε ἱματίων τὸ κάλλοσ ὧν εἶχε καὶ τῆσ ὀσμῆσ αἰσθόμενοσ καὶ τῶν στρεπτῶν καὶ τῶν ψελίων τὸ κάλλοσ καὶ τοῦ ἄλλου κόσμου οὗ εἶχεν, εἰπεῖν· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 4 24:1)
  • οὔκουν φαίνεται χρυσοφορίασ ἐπαινῶν Ὅμηροσ, καὶ ταῦτα εἰσ πόλεμον, ψελίων τε καὶ στρεπτῶν, ἔτι δὲ χρυσῶν φαλάρων καὶ χαλινῶν, ὁποῖα τοὺσ Πέρσασ φασὶν ἐπιτηδεύειν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 63:2)

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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