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ἔγκαυμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγκαυμα ἔγκαυματος

Structure: ἐγκαυματ (Stem)

Etym.: e)gkai/w

Sense

  1. a sore from burning

Declension

Third 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

  • ἴχνη μὲν καὶ σημεῖα πολλὰ τῶν ἐγκαυμάτων, οὐκ οἶδα δὲ ὅπωσ ἐξαλήλιπται, μᾶλλον δὲ ἐκκέκοπται. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 24:11)
  • ὁρᾷσ γοῦν, ὅπωσ διάκειμαι ὑπὸ τῶν ἐγκαυμάτων. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, xanthus and thalassa, chapter 22)
  • Εὖ λέγεισ, ὅτι σου τὰ ἐγκαύματα ἰασάμην, ὅτε πρῴην ἀνῆλθεσ ἡμίφλεκτοσ ὑπ̓ ἀμφοῖν διεφθαρμένοσ τὸ σῶμα, καὶ τοῦ χιτῶνοσ καὶ μετὰ τοῦτο τοῦ πυρόσ· (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:1)
  • γίνεται γὰρ οἱο͂ν ἔγκαυμα τῆσ ψυχῆσ τῶν μαθημάτων ἕκαστον. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 1 3:2)
  • ἦν μὲν οὖν μετὰ πολλῆσ ἡδονῆσ καὶ παιδιᾶσ τότε ἀκουόμενα, καὶ τοῦ πρεσβύτου προθύμωσ με διδάσκοντοσ, ἅτ’ ἐμοῦ πολλάκισ ἐπανερωτῶντοσ, ὥστε οἱο͂ν ἐγκαύματα ἀνεκπλύτου γραφῆσ ἔμμονά μοι γέγονεν· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 58:4)

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

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