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ἅλσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἅλσις

Structure: ἁλσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a(/llomai

Sense

  1. a leaping

Declension

Third 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

  • ἀενάουσ πηγὰσ ἀνακαλύπτων πόλει τε καὶ στρατοπέδοισ καὶ φυτείαισ βασιλέων καὶ ἄλσεσιν. (Plutarch, Maxime cum principbus philosopho esse diserendum, chapter, section 1 11:2)
  • ἀλλ’, ὦ τέκνον, θάκησιν εἴ τινα βλέπεισ ἢ πρὸσ βεβήλοισ ἢ πρὸσ ἄλσεσιν θεῶν, στῆσόν με κἀξίδρυσον, ὡσ πυθώμεθα ὅπου ποτ’ ἐσμέν· (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 1:5)
  • τὴν δὲ ᾠὸν ἐκ τῆσ συνουσίασ ἀποτεκεῖν, τοῦτο δὲ ἐν τοῖσ ἄλσεσιν εὑρόντα τινὰ ποιμένα Λήδᾳ κομίσαντα δοῦναι, τὴν δὲ καταθεμένην εἰσ λάρνακα φυλάσσειν, καὶ χρόνῳ καθήκοντι γεννηθεῖσαν Ἑλένην ὡσ ἐξ αὑτῆσ θυγατέρα τρέφειν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 10 8:4)
  • καὶ μὴν ἔστιν γε, ὦ ξένε, προϊόντι κυπαρίττων τε ἐν τοῖσ ἄλσεσιν ὕψη καὶ κάλλη θαυμάσια, καὶ λειμῶνεσ ἐν οἷσιν ἀναπαυόμενοι διατρίβοιμεν ἄν. (Plato, Laws, book 1 6:2)
  • μεστὴ δ’ ἐστὶν ἡ γῆ πᾶσα ἀρτεμισίων τε καὶ ἀφροδισίων καὶ νυμφαίων ἐν ἄλσεσιν ἀνθέων πλέῳσ τὸ πολὺ διὰ τὴν εὐυδρίαν, συχνὰ δὲ καὶ ἑρμεῖα ἐν ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ, ποσείδια δ’ ἐπὶ ταῖσ ἀκταῖσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 3 24:15)

Synonyms

  1. a leaping

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

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