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ἄντλημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄντλημα

Structure: ἀντληματ (Stem)

Etym.: from a)ntle/w

Sense

  1. a bucket for drawing water

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

  • ἑκατὸν γὰρ ἑκάστη βοῦσ ἀναφέρει καθ’ ἡμέραν ἑκάστην ἀντλήματα πλείονα δ’ οὐκ ἔστιν οὔτε λαβεῖν οὔτε βιάσασθαι βουλόμενον· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 21 2:1)
  • λέγει αὐτῷ Κύριε, οὔτε ἄντλημα ἔχεισ καὶ τὸ φρέαρ ἐστὶν βαθύ· (, chapter 1 136:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bucket for drawing water

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

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