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ἄμη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄμη

Structure: ἀμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a shovel or mattock

Declension

First 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

  • ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ οὗτοσ τοιοῦτοσ ὢν ἅπαντα τὸν βίον, κᾆτ’ ἀνὴρ ἔδοξεν εἶναι, τἀλλότριον ἀμῶν θέροσ. (Aristotle, Agon, trochees1)
  • ἔνθεν ὀλόμενον σκάφοσ συναρμόσασ ὁ Πριαμίδασ ἔπλευσε βαρβάρῳ πλάτᾳ τὰν ἐμὰν ἐφ’ ἑστίαν, ἐπὶ τὸ δυστυχέστατον κάλλοσ, ὡσ ἕλοι, γάμων ἀμῶν· (Euripides, Helen, choral, epode2)
  • ἀμὴ καὶ δέοι ἡ τῶν ὀδόντων. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 28 4:1)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὁτιοῦν ὁτῳοῦν ἁμῇ γέ πῃ προσέοικεν. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 176:1)
  • καὶ ἃ τότε ἔφαμεν ἄλλην δύναμιν ἔχειν καὶ οὐκ εἶναι τὸ ἕτερον οἱο͂ν τὸ ἕτερον, τὰ τοῦ προσώπου μόρια, ἁμῇ γέ πῃ προσέοικεν καὶ ἔστιν τὸ ἕτερον οἱο͂ν τὸ ἕτερον. (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 176:3)
  • τὸ δὲ ταὐτὸν ἕτερον ἀποφαίνειν ἁμῇ γέ πῃ καὶ τὸ θάτερον ταὐτὸν καὶ τὸ μέγα σμικρὸν καὶ τὸ ὅμοιον ἀνόμοιον, καὶ χαίρειν οὕτω τἀναντία ἀεὶ προφέροντα ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ, οὔτε τισ ἔλεγχοσ οὗτοσ ἀληθινὸσ ἄρτι τε τῶν ὄντων τινὸσ ἐφαπτομένου δῆλοσ νεογενὴσ ὤν. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 261:1)
  • θαυμάζοιμεν ἂν οὖν εἰ ταὐτὸν τοῦτο ἡμῶν ἡ ψυχὴ φύσει περὶ τὰ τῶν πάντων στοιχεῖα πεπονθυῖα τοτὲ μὲν ὑπ’ ἀληθείασ περὶ ἓν ἕκαστον ἔν τισι συνίσταται, τοτὲ δὲ περὶ ἅπαντα ἐν ἑτέροισ αὖ φέρεται, καὶ τὰ μὲν αὐτῶν ἁμῇ γέ πῃ τῶν συγκράσεων ὀρθῶσ δοξάζει, μετατιθέμενα δ’ εἰσ τὰσ τῶν πραγμάτων μακρὰσ καὶ μὴ ῥᾳδίουσ συλλαβὰσ ταὐτὰ ταῦτα πάλιν ἀγνοεῖ; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 129:4)

Synonyms

  1. a shovel or mattock

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

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