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ζάγκλον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζάγκλον ζάγκλου

Structure: ζαγκλ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a reaping-hook or sickle

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

  • κτίσμα δ’ ἐστὶ Μεσσηνίων τῶν ἐν Πελοποννήσῳ, παρ’ ὧν τοὔνομα μετήλλαξε καλουμένη Ζάγκλη πρότερον διὰ τὴν σκολιότητα τῶν τόπων ζάγκλον γὰρ ἐκαλεῖτο τὸ σκολιόν, Ναξίων οὖσα πρότερον κτίσμα τῶν πρὸσ Κατάνην· (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 2 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. a reaping-hook or sickle

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

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