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δεῖμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δεῖμα

Structure: δειματ (Stem)

Etym.: dei/dw

Sense

  1. fear, affright
  2. an object of fear, a terror, horror, fearful

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative δεῖμα δείματε δείματα
Genitive δείματος δειμάτοιν δειμάτων
Dative δείματι δειμάτοιν δείμασιν*
Accusative δεῖμα δείματε δείματα
Vocative δεῖμα δείματε δείματα

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

  • ‐ ὦ μέλεαι μελέων ματέρεσ λοχαγῶν, ὥσ μοι ὑφ’ ἥπατι χλωρὸν δεῖμα θάσσει ‐ ‐ τίν’ αὐδὰν τάνδε προσφέρεισ νέαν; (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, strophe 11)
  • οὔτοι νομίζω σοφόν, ὃσ ἂν μέλλων κτενεῖν οἴκτῳ τὸ δεῖμα τοὐλέθρου νικᾶν θέλῃ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, anapests 1:13)
  • ἐσ φροντίδασ δ’ ἀπῆλθεσ, ἐκ δὲ χαρμονῆσ πάλιν μεταστὰσ δεῖμα προσβάλλεισ πατρί. (Euripides, Ion, episode, iambic10)
  • φόβοσ γὰρ ἐσ τὸ δεῖμα περιβαλών μ’ ἄγει. (Euripides, Helen, episode 4:16)
  • καίτοι μ’ ἐσῄει δεῖμα, μή τινοσ κλύων ἀλαστόρων δόξαιμι σὴν κλύειν ὄπα. (Euripides, episode, iambic 5:3)
  • καὶ τόδε δεῖμά μοι· (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, anapests 1:9)
  • οὔκ, ἀλλ’ Ἐρινύων δεῖμά μ’ ἐκβάλλει χθονόσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, iambic 1:32)

Synonyms

  1. fear

  2. an object of fear

Related

Similar forms

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

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