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ἄμμος

Second declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄμμος ἄμμου

Structure: ἀμμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. sand
  2. sandy ground, a racecourse

Declension

Second 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

  • καὶ Κράτησ δ’ ὁ Θηβαῖοσ ἔλεγεν μὴ πρὸ φακῆσ λοπάδ’ αὔξων εἰσ στάσιν ἄμμε βάλῃσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 47 1:3)
  • ὁ μὲν οὖν Κράτησ διὰ τρυφὴν καὶ πολυτέλειαν οἰόμενοσ οὐχ ἥκιστα τὰσ στάσεισ καὶ τὰσ τυραννίδασ ἐμφύεσθαι ταῖσ πόλεσι, μετὰ παιδιᾶσ παρῄνει μὴ πρὸ φακῆσ λοπάδ’ αὔξων εἰσ στάσιν ἄμμε βάλῃσ αὐτὸσ δέ τισ ἑαυτῷ παρακελευέσθω μὴ πρὸ φακῆσ λοπάδ’ αὔξων μηδὲ πάντωσ ὑπερβαίνων τὴν καρδαμίδα καὶ τὴν ἐλαίαν ἐπὶ τὸ θρῖον καὶ τὸν ἰχθὺν εἰσ στάσιν ἐκ πλησμονῆσ τὸ σῶμα καὶ ταραχὰσ ἐμβάλλειν καὶ διαρροίασ. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 7 12:1)
  • "λέγοντι τὸν βάρβαρον ἐγγύθι γενόμενον ἄμμε δὲ χρονοτριβέειν ἤδη γὰρ κτάμεν τὼσ βαρβάρωσ ἢ αὐτοὶ τεθνάμεν θέλομεσ. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 5 2:1)
  • πρὸσ ὃ δὴ καὶ λέλεκται τὸ μύθοισιν τέρποντο πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ ἐνέποντεσ καὶ τὸ οὐδέ κεν ἄλλο ἄμμε διέκρινεν φιλέοντέ τε τερπομένω τε 17 ἦ ρ· (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 11 5:1)
  • ὁδῶν ὁδοὶ περαίτεραι, μία δ’ οὐχ ἅπαντασ ἄμμε θρέψει μελέτα· (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 9 27:1)

Synonyms

  1. sand

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