Ancient Greek

Noun

ἄλειφᾰρ • ‎(áleiphar) n ‎(genitive ἀλείφατος); third declension

1. unguent, anointing oil, oil, fat
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Iliad 23.170
   • 800 BCE – 600 BCE, Homer, Odyssey 3.408
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.87
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 2.94
   • 460 BCE – 370 BCE, Hippocrates, On the Nature of the Woman 1.74
2. pitch, resin
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Theocritus, Collected Works 7.147

Inflection

References

• ἄλειφαρ in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ἄλειφαρ in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἄλειφαρ in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
• «ἄλειφαρ» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• «ἄλειφαρ» in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
• «ἄλειφαρ» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)