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δρεπάνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δρεπάνη

Structure: δρεπαν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: dre/pw

Sense

  1. a sickle, reaping-hook, a pruning-hook

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

  • ἤδη καὶ σταφυλαὶ δρεπάνησ ἐπιμιμνήσκονται, καί τισ χειμερινὴν ἀμφερέφει καλύβην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 372)
  • ἐπὶ μὲν ταῖσ εἰσβολαῖσ τοῦ Εὐξείνου πόντου ᾗ τὸ στενότατον τῆσ θαλάττησ ἀναπετάννυσιν ἐξ αὑτοῦ τὴν πολλὴν θάλατταν, καὶ πέτρα τε κυανέα αὐτόθι ὠνόμασται καὶ πύλαι θαλάττησ πρότερον εἶναι κλεισταὶ δοκοῦσαι, ἱερά τε αὐτοῦ καὶ τεμένη καὶ βωμοὶ, ἄλλα τε καὶ ἡ καταίρουσα πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ ἐκεῖθεν θάλαττα, Λευκάτα τε οὕτωσ ἐπωνομασμένη κατὰ τὴν ἐνταυθοῖ Λευκάτα τὴν ἐπὶ τῷ Ἀκτίῳ, οὐ πέτρα τισ οὖσα ὥσπερ αὕτη, ἀλλὰ γῆ πολλὴ προχωροῦσα εἰσ θάλατταν, προχωννύουσα ἐπὶ πολὺ αὐτὴν σχήματι κυκλοτερεῖ ἐξ ἡμισείασ, δρεπάνησ τινὰ τρόπον ἀτεχνῶσ ὡσ καὶ τὸ ὄνομα εἶναι τοῦτο τῇ προχώσει, καὶ λέγεσθαί γε ἐπ’ αὐτῷ καὶ λόγον τινὰ καὶ μῦθον, ὡσ ἄρα ἐνταῦθα ἐπράχθη τὸ ἔργον τὸ περὶ τὸν Κρόνον ὑπὸ τῶν παίδων αὐτοῦ, τὸ περὶ τὴν ἐκτομήν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:9)

Synonyms

  1. a sickle

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

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