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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

  • ταθείσησ δὲ τῆσ παρατελευταίασ ἐτάθη καὶ τὸ τέλοσ, καὶ ὁμοίωσ λέγεται τῷ ψηφὶσ καὶ κρηπίσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 67 1:3)

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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