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εἷμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἷμα

Structure: εἱματ (Stem)

Etym.: e(/nnumi

Sense

  1. a garment, clothes, clothing
  2. a cover, rug, carpet

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εἷμα εί̔ματε εί̔ματα
Genitive εί̔ματος εἱμάτοιν εἱμάτων
Dative εί̔ματι εἱμάτοιν εί̔μασιν*
Accusative εἷμα εί̔ματε εί̔ματα
Vocative εῖ̔μα εί̔ματε εί̔ματα

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

  • ὁρῶ σ’, Ὀδυσσεῦ, δεξιὰν ὑφ’ εἵματοσ κρύπτοντα χεῖρα καὶ πρόσωπον ἔμπαλιν στρέφοντα, μή σου προσθίγω γενειάδοσ. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 3:1)
  • ἤδη ποτ’ εἶδον ἄνδρ’ ἐγὼ γλώσσῃ θρασὺν ναύτασ ἐφορμήσαντα χειμῶνοσ τὸ πλεῖν, ᾧ φθέγμ’ ἂν οὐκ ἂν ηὑρ͂εσ, ἡνίκ’ ἐν κακῷ χειμῶνοσ εἴχετ’, ἀλλ’ ὑφ’ εἵματοσ κρυφεὶσ πατεῖν παρεῖχε τῷ θέλοντι ναυτίλων. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 4:27)
  • ὡσ μήτε φεύγειν μήτ’ ἀμύνεσθαι μόρον, ἄπειρον ἀμφίβληστρον, ὥσπερ ἰχθύων, περιστιχίζω, πλοῦτον εἵματοσ κακόν. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode, anapests 6:6)
  • εἰπόντων δὲ τῆσ ποιήσιοσ πέρι καὶ ἀλείψιοσ, τὸν αὐτὸν λόγον τὸν καὶ περὶ τοῦ εἵματοσ εἶπε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 22 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a garment

  2. a cover

Related

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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