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ἀμαύρωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμαύρωμα

Structure: ἀμαυρωματ (Stem)

Etym.: from a)mauro/omai

Sense

  1. obscuration

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

  • θαυμασιώτατον δὲ τῶν μὲν ἀνθρωπίνων τὸ περὶ Κάσσιον ἡττηθεὶσ γὰρ ἐν Φιλίπποισ ἐκείνῳ τῷ ξιφιδίῳ διέφθειρεν ἑαυτὸν ᾧ κατὰ Καίσαροσ ἐχρήσατο τῶν δὲ θείων ὅ τε μέγασ κομήτησ ἐφάνη γὰρ ἐπὶ νύκτασ ἑπτὰ μετὰ τὴν Καίσαροσ σφαγὴν διαπρεπήσ, εἶτα ἠφανίσθη καὶ τὸ περὶ τὸν ἥλιον ἀμαύρωμα τῆσ αὐγῆσ. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 69 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. obscuration

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

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