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δρέπανον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δρέπανον δρέπανου

Structure: δρεπαν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: dre/pw

Sense

  1. a scythe
  2. a curved sword, scimitar

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

  • πρὸ τοῦ θερισμοῦ, ὅταν συντελεσθῇ ἄνθοσ καὶ ὄμφαξ ἐξανθήσῃ ἄνθοσ ὀμφακίζουσα, καὶ ἀφελεῖ τὰ βοτρύδια τὰ μικρὰ τοῖσ δρεπάνοισ καὶ τὰσ κληματίδασ ἀφελεῖ καὶ ἀποκόψει (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 18:5)
  • τέμνοντεσ νὴ Δία καὶ διαιροῦντεσ τοῖσ δρεπάνοισ εἴ τινασ τῶν φίλων καταλάβοιεν· (Lucian, Zeuxis 19:2)
  • νεανίσκουσ δύο τῶν ἐκ τῆσ συνωμοσίασ τοὺσ τολμηροτάτουσ ποιμενικαῖσ ἐνδύσαντεσ στολαῖσ καὶ δρεπάνοισ καθοπλίσαντεσ ὑλουργοῖσ πέμπουσιν ἐπὶ τὴν οἰκίαν τοῦ βασιλέωσ ἡμέρασ μεσούσησ διδάξαντεσ ἃ χρὴ λέγειν τε καὶ πράττειν καὶ τὸν τρόπον τῆσ ἐπιθέσεωσ αὐτοῖσ ὑφηγησάμενοι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 73 2:1)
  • ὡσ δ’ ἐκ τοῦ καταφρονεῖσθαι καιρὸν ἔδοξαν εἰληφέναι τῆσ ἐπιχειρήσεωσ τὸν ἐπιτήδειον, φέρουσι κατὰ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ τοῦ βασιλέωσ πληγὰσ τοῖσ δρεπάνοισ καὶ τοῦτο πράξαντεσ ἔφευγον ἔξω θυρῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 73 4:2)
  • πύργουσ τε οὖν καὶ καταπέλτασ ἐπάγων καὶ χελώνασ ἔνια διέσειε, καὶ δρεπάνοισ ἀπὸ κάλων ἐπάλξεισ τε κατέσυρε καὶ τὸ τεῖχοσ ἀπεγύμνου. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 6 2:4)

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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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