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ἀμφιθέατρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμφιθέατρον

Structure: ἀμφιθεατρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a double theatre, amphitheatre

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀμφιθέατρον ἀμφιθεάτρω ἀμφιθέατρα
Genitive ἀμφιθεάτρου ἀμφιθεάτροιν ἀμφιθεάτρων
Dative ἀμφιθεάτρῳ ἀμφιθεάτροιν ἀμφιθεάτροις
Accusative ἀμφιθέατρον ἀμφιθεάτρω ἀμφιθέατρα
Vocative ἀμφιθέατρον ἀμφιθεάτρω ἀμφιθέατρα

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

  • ‐ Πῶσ οὖν ἄλλωσ θεωρήσω καλῶσ ἐν τῷ ἀμφιθεάτρῳ; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 27:1)
  • τούτων δ’ οἰχομένων ἐδήλουν ἤδη τοῖσ στρατιώταισ καὶ συνῆγον αὐτοὺσ εἰσ ἐκκλησίαν μετὰ τοῦ λοιποῦ πλήθουσ ἐν τῷ κατὰ Ιἑριχοῦντα ἀμφιθεάτρῳ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 933:2)
  • διαιρεῖ γὰρ αὐτὴν χαράδρα τισ ποιοῦσα φάραγγα, ἧσ τὸ μὲν γέφυραν ἐπικειμένην ἔχει συνάπτουσαν τὰσ δύο πόλεισ, τὸ δ’ ἀμφιθεάτρῳ κεκόσμηται κρυπτὴν ἔχοντι τὴν ὑπόρρυσιν τῶν χαραδρωδῶν ὑδάτων· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 78:2)
  • ἐπεδαψιλεύσατο δ’ αὐτῶν τὴν καθιέρωσιν μεγαλοπρεπῶσ, ἐν τῷ θεάτρῳ μὲν θεωρίασ ἐπιτελῶν πάνθ’ ὅσα μουσικῆσ ἔργα παράγων καὶ ποικίλησ ποιητικὰ τέρψεωσ, ἐν δὲ τῷ ἀμφιθεάτρῳ πλήθει μονομάχων τὴν αὐτοῦ δεικνὺσ μεγαλόνοιαν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 390:1)

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

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