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ἅμμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἅμμα ἅμματος

Structure: ἁμματ (Stem)

Etym.: a(/ptw

Sense

  1. anything tied or made to tie
  2. a knot
  3. a noose, halter
  4. a band, girdle
  5. the wrestler's arms or hug

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἅμμα ά̔μματε ά̔μματα
Genitive ά̔μματος ἁμμάτοιν ἁμμάτων
Dative ά̔μματι ἁμμάτοιν ά̔μμασιν*
Accusative ἅμμα ά̔μματε ά̔μματα
Vocative ά̔μμα ά̔μματε ά̔μματα

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

  • καὶ πρῶτα μὲν καθεῖσαν εἰσ ὤμουσ κόμασ νεβρίδασ τ’ ἀνεστείλανθ’ ὅσαισιν ἁμμάτων σύνδεσμ’ ἐλέλυτο, καὶ καταστίκτουσ δορὰσ ὄφεσι κατεζώσαντο λιχμῶσιν γένυν. (Euripides, episode, trochees 4:3)
  • περὶ δὲ δεσμὰ καὶ πολύβροχ’ ἁμμάτων ἐρείσμαθ’ Ἡράκλειον ἀμφὶ δέμασ τάδε λαί̈νοισ ἀνημμένα κίοσιν οἴκων. (Euripides, Heracles, choral, lyric13)
  • ἢν δὲ ἐν τούτῳ τῷ χρόνῳ μὴ παρέω ἀλλὰ διεξέλθωσι ὑμῖν αἱ ἡμέραι τῶν ἁμμάτων, ἀποπλέετε ἐσ τὴν ὑμετέρην αὐτῶν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 98 2:3)
  • εἰ δὲ μηδὲν ἔκδηλον οὕτω ποιεῖν διὰ τῶν ἀμμάτων δύνανται, ὥστε ἐπιστρέφειν ἅπαντασ, ἢ μηδέπω τὴν τέχνην ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον προαγηόχασιν, οὐδὲν ἐπιεικέστερον τἄλλα ἔχουσιν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 66:2)

Synonyms

  1. a knot

  2. a noose

  3. a band

Related

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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