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ἐλάτη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλάτη

Structure: ἐλατ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the silver fir, pinus picea
  2. an oar, a ship or boat

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

  • ὄχθων δ’ ἔπ’, ἀμβὰσ ἐσ ἐλάτην ὑψαύχενα, ἴδοιμ’ ἂν ὀρθῶσ μαινάδων αἰσχρουργίαν. (Euripides, episode, lyric 2:6)
  • "οἱο͂ν ἐπὶ τοῦ πυρὸσ τοῦ ἀθανάτου, τὸ κάεσθαι μόνον αὐτόθι τῶν, ξύλων ἐλάτην καὶ δάφνην ἐπιθυμιᾶσθαι, καὶ τὸ δύο Μοίρασ ἱδρῦσθαι πανταχοῦ τριῶν νομιζομένων, τὸ μηδεμιᾷ γυναικὶ πρὸσ τὸ χρηστήριον εἶναι προσελθεῖν· (Plutarch, De E apud Delphos, section 2 3:3)
  • εὑρ͂εν ἔπειτ’ ἐλάτην ἀλαλήμενοσ, οὔτε τι πολλοῖσ ἀχθομένην ὄζοισ, οὐδὲ μέγα τηλεθόωσαν, ἀλλ’ οἱο͂ν ταναῆσ ἔρνοσ πέλει αἰγείροιο· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 20:22)
  • χωόμενοσ δ’ ἐλάτην χαμάδισ βάλεν, ἐσ δὲ κέλευθον τὴν θέεν, ᾗ πόδεσ αὐτὸν ὑπέκφερον ἀίσσοντα. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 22:7)
  • ἔνθ’ Ὕπνοσ μὲν ἔμεινε πάροσ Διὸσ ὄσσε ἰδέσθαι εἰσ ἐλάτην ἀναβὰσ περιμήκετον, ἣ τότ’ ἐν Ἴδῃ μακροτάτη πεφυυῖα δι’ ἠέροσ αἰθέρ’ ἵκανεν· (Homer, Iliad, Book 14 30:5)

Synonyms

  1. an oar

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

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