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ἄλημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλημα

Structure: ἀληματ (Stem)

Etym.: a)le/w

Sense

  1. fine meal, a wily knave

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἄλημα ἀλήματε ἀλήματα
Genitive ἀλήματος ἀλημάτοιν ἀλημάτων
Dative ἀλήματι ἀλημάτοιν ἀλήμασιν*
Accusative ἄλημα ἀλήματε ἀλήματα
Vocative ά̓λημα ἀλήματε ἀλήματα

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

  • ἰὼ πάνθ’ ὁρῶν ἁπάντων τ’ ἀεὶ κακῶν ὄργανον, τέκνον Λαρτίου, κακοπινέστατόν τ’ ἄλημα στρατοῦ, ἦ που πολὺν γέλωθ’ ὑφ’ ἡδονῆσ ἄγεισ. (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • ὦ Ζεῦ, προγόνων προπάτωρ, πῶσ ἂν τὸν αἱμυλώτατον, ἐχθρὸν ἄλημα, τούσ τε δισσάρχασ ὀλέσσασ βασιλῆσ τέλοσ θάνοιμι καὐτόσ; (Sophocles, Ajax, choral, antistrophe 27)

Synonyms

  1. fine meal

Similar forms

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

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