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διωρυχή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διωρυχή

Structure: διωρυχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: dioru/ssw

Sense

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Declension

First 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

  • ᾗ δὴ τήν τε ἐκ τῶν ὀρῶν ὕλην κατῆγον εἰσ τὸ ἄστυ καὶ τἆλλα δὲ ὡραῖα πλοίοισ κατεκομίζοντο, διάπλουσ ἐκ τῶν διωρύχων εἰσ ἀλλήλασ τε πλαγίασ καὶ πρὸσ τὴν πόλιν τεμόντεσ. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 85:3)
  • καὶ δὶσ δὴ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ τὴν γῆν ἐκαρποῦντο, χειμῶνοσ μὲν τοῖσ ἐκ Διὸσ ὕδασι χρώμενοι, θέρουσ δὲ ὅσα γῆ φέρει τὰ ἐκ τῶν διωρύχων ἐπάγοντεσ νάματα. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 86:1)
  • τὸν γὰρ πρὸ τοῦ χρόνον ἡ κρατίστη τῆσ Αἰγύπτου πᾶσα σχεδὸν ἱππάσιμοσ οὖσα καὶ ταῖσ συνωρίσιν εὔβατοσ ἀπ’ ἐκείνου τοῦ χρόνου διὰ τὸ πλῆθοσ τῶν ἐκ τοῦ ποταμοῦ διωρύχων δυσεφοδωτάτη γέγονεν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 57 3:1)
  • καὶ ἡ μεγίστη τῶν διωρύχων ἐστὶ νηυσιπέρητοσ, πρὸσ ἥλιον τετραμμένη τὸν χειμερινόν, ἐσέχει δὲ ἐσ ἄλλον ποταμὸν ἐκ τοῦ Εὐφρήτεω, ἐσ τὸν Τίγρην, παρ’ ὃν Νίνοσ πόλισ οἴκητο. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 193 3:2)
  • ἥ τε γὰρ γῆ ἐοῦσα πεδιὰσ αὕτη ποιώδησ τε καὶ εὐύδροσ ἐστί, ποταμοί τε δι’ αὐτῆσ ῥέουσι οὐ πολλῷ τεῳ ἀριθμὸν ἐλάσσονεσ τῶν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ διωρύχων. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 47 1:2)

Synonyms

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

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