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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

  • ἐκ ταμιείων ἐπέρχονται ὀδύναι, ἀπὸ δὲ ἀκρωτηρίων ψῦχοσ, (Septuagint, Liber Iob 37:9)
  • διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ παραλύω τὸν ὦμον Μωὰβ ἀπὸ πόλεων ἀκρωτηρίων αὐτοῦ, ἐκλεκτὴν γῆν, οἶκον Ἀσιμοὺθ ἐπάνω πηγῆσ πόλεωσ παραθαλασσίασ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 25:9)
  • τῶν δ’ ἀκρωτηρίων εἰσ Ῥώμην κομισθέντων ἔτυχε μὲν ἀρχαιρεσίασ τελῶν ὁ Ἀντώνιοσ, ἀκούσασ δὲ καὶ ἰδὼν ἀνεβόησεν ὡσ νῦν αἱ προγραφαὶ τέλοσ ἔχοιεν. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 49 1:1)
  • πάντα δὲ ἔξωθεν περιήλειψαν τὸν νεὼν ἀργύρῳ, πλὴν τῶν ἀκρωτηρίων, τὰ δὲ ἀκρωτήρια χρυσῷ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 72:1)
  • μείναντεσ δὲ τὴν χειμερινὴν ὡρ́αν αὐτόθι νεὼν Ἀφροδίτησ ἱδρύσαντο ἐπὶ τῶν ἀκρωτηρίων ἑνὸσ καὶ πόλιν Αἴνειαν ἔκτισαν, ἐν ᾗ τούσ τε ὑπὸ καμάτων ἀδυνάτουσ πλεῖν καὶ ὅσοισ αὐτοῦ μένειν βουλομένοισ ἦν, ὡσ ἐν οἰκείᾳ γῇ τὸ λοιπὸν ἐσομένουσ, ὑπελίποντο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 49 6:3)

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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