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βράγχιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βράγχιον βραγχίου

Structure: βραγχι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. fin
  2. (in the plural) gill

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

  • ἀλλὰ νῦν ἔσῃ φανερὸσ ἅπασιν ἐκ τῶν βραγχίων ἀπηρτημένοσ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 48:16)
  • ἐστὶ δὲ ὑπόπυρροσ καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν βραγχίων ἑκατέρωθεν τοῦ σώματοσ μέχρι τῆσ κέρκου μίαν ἔχει διηνεκῆ λευκὴν ῥάβδον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 5 1:2)
  • οὗτοι δὲ ὡσ εἶδον τὰ γινόμενα, διαδράντεσ ἐκ τῶν βραγχίων ἀφῆκαν αὑτοὺσ εἰσ τὴν θάλατταν. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 39:3)
  • τοῦτον Ἀριστοτέλησ φησὶν καρχαρόδοντα εἶναι καὶ μονήρη καὶ σαρκοφάγον ἔχειν τε στόμα μικρὸν καὶ γλῶτταν οὐ λίαν προσπεφυκυῖαν, καρδίαν τρίγωνον, ἧπαρ λευκόν, τρίλοβον, ἔχειν τε χολὴν καὶ σπλῆνα μέλανα, τῶν δὲ βραγχίων τὸ μὲν διπλοῦν, τὸ δὲ ἁπλοῦν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 1132)
  • τὴν δὲ κατὰ προαίρεσιν ἀναπνοὴν γίνεσθαί φησι, συναγομένων τῶν ἐν τῷ πνεύμονι λεπτοτάτων πόρων καὶ τῶν βραγχίων στενουμένων τῇ γὰρ ἡμετέρᾳ ταῦθ’ ὑπακούει προαιρέσει. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 4, 8:2)

Synonyms

  1. fin

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