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ψῆττα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψῆττα

Structure: ψηττ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. a plaice, sole, turbot

Declension

First 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

  • ἐγὼ δέ γ’ ἂν κἂν ὡσπερεὶ ψῆτταν δοκῶ δοῦναι ἂν ἐμαυτῆσ παρατεμοῦσα θἤμισυ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 3:24)
  • βούγλωσσοσ ὁ Πυθαγορικὸσ δὲ δι’ ἐγκράτειαν Ἀρχέστρατόσ φησιν εἶτα λαβεῖν ψῆτταν μεγάλην καὶ τὴν ὑπότρηχυν βούγλωσσον, ταύτην δὲ θέρευσ, περὶ Χαλκίδα κεδνήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 301)
  • Ἀττικοὶ δὲ ψῆτταν αὐτὴν καλοῦσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 30 1:2)
  • Σπεύσιπποσ δ’ ἐν β’ Ὁμοίων παραπλήσιά φησιν εἶναι ψῆτταν, βούγλωσσον, ταινίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 139 1:1)
  • "τῶν δὲ πλατέων βούγλωττον, ψῆτταν, ἔσχαρον, ὃν καλοῦσι καὶ κόριν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 139 2:3)
  • θρᾷτταν ἢ ψῆττὰν τιν’ ἢ μύραιναν ἢ κακὸν τί μοι δώσει μέγα θαλάττιον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 138 3:9)

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

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