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βάραθρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βάραθρον βαράθρου

Structure: βαραθρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. gulf, cleft, pit (especially one at Athens behind the acropolis into which criminals were thrown)
  2. ruin, perdition
  3. glutton, spendthrift

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

  • βάραθρα καὶ κρημνοὺσ; (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 14 3:1)
  • τούτῳ δ’ οὐδέν’ ὁρῶ τῶν τόπων τούτων βάσιμον ὄντα, ἀλλὰ πάντ’ ἀπόκρημνα, φάραγγασ, βάραθρα. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 93:2)
  • τά τε βέλη κομίζων τοῖσ ζεύγεσι προῆγε διὰ τῆσ ἐρήμου μετὰ κακοπαθείασ διὰ τὸ πολλοὺσ εἶναι τῶν τόπων τελματώδεισ καὶ μάλιστα περὶ τὰ καλούμενα Βάραθρα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 73 3:2)
  • τῶν δὲ πρὸσ τὴν ἀνατολὴν νευόντων μερῶν τὰ μὲν ὁ ποταμὸσ ὠχύρωκε, τὰ δ’ ἔρημοσ περιέχει καὶ πεδία τελματώδη τὰ προσαγορευόμενα Βάραθρα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 30 4:1)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν προειρημένα πεδία τοιαύτην ἔχοντα τὴν φύσιν οἰκείασ ἔτυχε προσηγορίασ, ὀνομασθέντα Βάραθρα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 30 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. glutton

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