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ψηφίς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψηφίς ψηφῖδος

Structure: ψηφιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: yh=fos의 지소사

Sense

  1. a small pebble
  2. a pebble for reckoning

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ψηφίς ψηφίδε ψηφίδες
Genitive ψηφίδος ψηφίδοιν ψηφίδων
Dative ψηφίδι ψηφίδοιν ψηφίσιν*
Accusative ψηφίδα ψηφίδε ψηφίδας
Vocative ψηφί ψηφίδε ψηφίδες

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 μὲν παράσιτοσ οὕτωσ ἔχει πρὸσ ἀργύριον ὡσ οὐκ ἄν τισ οὐδὲ πρὸσ τὰσ ἐν τοῖσ αἰγιαλοῖσ ψηφῖδασ ἀμελῶσ ἔχοι, καὶ οὐδὲν αὐτῷ δοκεῖ διαφέρειν τὸ χρυσίον τοῦ πυρόσ. (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 52:3)
  • ὃσ δὲ λαβὼν ψηφῖδασ, ὑπὲρ πίνακόσ τε πυκάζων, δάκτυλά τε γνάμπτων, φθέγξατο Καλλιγένει· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 365 1:1)
  • "οὐ διὰ τὰ κύματα καὶ τὰσ ψηφῖδασ τί γάρ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 4, 10:9)
  • καὶ ὁ μὲν κόλποσ οὐδέν τι ἔχει διάφορον ἢ ὅσαι κατὰ τὴν Λακωνικὴν ἄλλαι θαλάσσησ εἰσὶν ἐσβολαί, αἰγιαλὸσ δὲ ὁ ταύτῃ παρέχεται ψηφῖδασ σχῆμα εὐπρεπεστέρασ καὶ χρόασ παντοδαπῆσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 23 17:2)

Synonyms

  1. a small pebble

  2. a pebble for reckoning

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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