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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

  • ταύτασ Ἀριστοτέλησ ἱστορεῖ τὰ μὲν βράγχια ἔχειν καλυπτά, εἶναι καρχαρόδοντασ καὶ τῶν συναγελαζομένων καὶ σαρκοφάγων χολήν τε ἔχειν ἰσομήκη τῷ ἐντέρῳ καὶ σπλῆνα ὁμοίωσ, λέγεται δὲ ὡσ θηρευθεῖσαι προσανάλλονται καὶ ἀποτρώγουσαι τὴν ὁρμιὰν ἐκφεύγουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 62)
  • λεπτὰ γὰρ ἔχουσαι τὰ βράγχια αὐτίκα ὑπὸ τοῦ θολοῦ τοὺσ πόρουσ ἐπιπωματίζονται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 52 1:4)
  • Θεόφραστοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ τῶν ἐν τῷ ξηρῷ διαιτωμένων ἔγχελύν φησιν καὶ μύραιναν πολὺν χρόνον δύνασθαι ἔξω τοῦ ὑγροῦ ζῆν διὰ τὸ μικρὰ ἔχειν βράγχια καὶ ὀλίγον δέχεσθαι τὸ ὑγρόν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 902)
  • ἐξελὼν τὰ βράγχια, πλύνασ, περικόψασ τὰσ ἀκάνθασ τὰσ κύκλῳ παράσχισον χρηστῶσ διαπτύξασ θ’ ὅλον τῷ σιλφίῳ μάστιξον εὖ τε καὶ καλῶσ τυρῷ τε σάξον ἁλσὶ τ’ ἠδ’ ὀριγάνῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 120 1:4)
  • σχιζομένη γὰρ οὕτω κατὰ κορυφὴν ἡ θάλασσα τά τε βράγχια καταστέλλει καὶ κατὰ τῆσ ἐπιφανείασ ῥέουσα λείωσ πιέζει καὶ οὐκ ἀνίστησι τὸ φρικῶδεσ. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 28 5:1)
  • εὐνὴν δὲ ἀπὸ τῶν φύλλων ποιούμεθα, καὶ πῦρ ἄφθονον καίομεν, καὶ ὄρνεα δὲ θηρεύομεν τὰ εἰσπετόμενα, καὶ ζῶντασ ἰχθῦσ ἀγρεύομεν ἐξιόντεσ ἐπὶ τὰ βραγχία τοῦ θηρίου, ἔνθα καὶ λουόμεθα, ὁπόταν ἐπιθυμήσωμεν. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 34:6)

Synonyms

  1. fin

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