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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

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

  • τοῦ μέν τε προρέοντοσ ὑπὸ ψηφῖδεσ ἅπασαι ὀχλεῦνται· (Homer, Iliad, Book 21 20:14)
  • ἄχρι μὲν δὴ τοῦ ἵππου αἰγιαλόσ τε καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ ψηφῖδεσ ὑποφαίνονται, τὸ δὲ ἐντεῦθεν οὐκέτι ἐοίκεν εἶναι θάλασσα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 25 18:2)
  • ἦν δὲ καὶ δὴ μέσοσ χειμὼν καὶ βορέασ μέγασ καὶ κρυμὸσ, καὶ αἱ ψηφῖδεσ οὕτωσ ὑπὸ τοῦ πάγου πρὸσ ἀλλήλασ ἐδέδεντο ὥστε ἐοικέναι κρυστάλλῳ συνεχεῖ, καὶ τὸ ὕδωρ οἱο͂ν εἰκὸσ ἐν τοιούτῳ ἀέρι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. a small pebble

  2. a pebble for reckoning

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

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