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δέρτρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: δέρτρον

Structure: δερτρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: de/rw

Sense

  1. the membrane which contains the bowels, even to the bowels

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative δέρτρον δέρτρω δέρτρα
Genitive δέρτρου δέρτροιν δέρτρων
Dative δέρτρῳ δέρτροιν δέρτροις
Accusative δέρτρον δέρτρω δέρτρα
Vocative δέρτρον δέρτρω δέρτρα

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

  • "δέρτρον ἔσω δύνοντεσ,’" τοὺσ δ’ ὥσπερ Ταντάλουσ ἐφεστῶτεσ εἴργουσι γεύσασθαι τῶν ἰδίων τρυγῶντασ καὶ συγκομίζοντασ. (Plutarch, De vitando aere alieno, chapter, section 4 2:1)
  • ὁ δ’ ἐπ’ ἐννέα κεῖτο πέλεθρα, γῦπε δέ μιν ἑκάτερθε παρημένω ἧπαρ ἔκειρον, δέρτρον ἔσω δύνοντεσ, ὁ δ’ οὐκ ἀπαμύνετο χερσί· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 11 71:2)

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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