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ἀκρωτήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκρωτήριον

Structure: ἀκρωτηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: a)/kros

Sense

  1. any prominent part, peak
  2. a cape, promontory
  3. the extremity, beak
  4. the extremities of the body, hands and feet, fingers and toes, wings

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

  • οἱ δὲ οὔ φασι τῇ γυναικὶ ταύτην γενέσθαι τὴν ὄψιν ἀλλὰ ἦν γάρ τι τῇ Καίσαροσ οἰκίᾳ προσκείμενον οἱο͂́ν ἐπὶ κόσμῳ καὶ σεμνότητι τῆσ βουλῆσ ψηφισαμένησ ἀκρωτήριον, ὡσ Λίβιοσ ἱστορεῖ, τοῦτο ὄναρ ἡ Καλπουρνία θεασαμένη καταρρηγνύμενον ἔδοξε ποτνιᾶσθαι καὶ δακρύειν. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 63 6:1)
  • ἐκεῖναι μὲν γὰρ ἀνεμῶδέσ τι μέλλουσαι κάμπτειν ἀκρωτήριον ἑρματίζουσιν ἑαυτάσ, ὑπὲρ τοῦ μὴ παραφέρεσθαι, μικροῖσ λιθιδίοισ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 10 17:1)
  • Δία τε φοινικοστερόπαν σεμνόν τ’ ἐπίνειμαι ἀκρωτήριον Ἄλιδοσ τοιοῖσδε βέλεσσιν, τὸ δή ποτε Λυδὸσ ἡρ́ωσ Πέλοψ ἐξάρατο κάλλιστον ἕδνον Ἱπποδαμείασ· (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 9 2:1)
  • μαθὼν δὲ τοῦτο παρ’ αὐτῆσ ὁ Πέλοψ ῥίπτει τὸν Μυρτίλον περὶ Γεραιστὸν ἀκρωτήριον εἰσ τὸ ἀπ’ ἐκείνου κληθὲν Μυρτῷον πέλαγοσ· (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 2 8:3)
  • ἄραντεσ δὲ αὐτόθεν ἐπί τε Ἄκτιον ἐλθόντεσ ὁρμίζονται τοῦ Ἀμβρακικοῦ κόλπου πρὸσ τὸ ἀκρωτήριον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 50 5:3)

Synonyms

  1. a cape

  2. the extremity

Related

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

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