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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

  • ἐξέλιπε δὲ τὸ ὕδωρ ἐκ τοῦ ἀσκοῦ, καὶ ἔρριψε τὸ παιδίον ὑποκάτω μιᾶσ ἐλάτησ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 21:15)
  • ηὗδον δὲ πᾶσαι σώμασιν παρειμέναι, αἳ μὲν πρὸσ ἐλάτησ νῶτ’ ἐρείσασαι φόβην, αἳ δ’ ἐν δρυὸσ φύλλοισι πρὸσ πέδῳ κάρα εἰκῇ βαλοῦσαι σωφρόνωσ, οὐχ ὡσ σὺ φῂσ ᾠνωμένασ κρατῆρι καὶ λωτοῦ ψόφῳ θηρᾶν καθ’ ὕλην Κύπριν ἠρημωμένασ. (Euripides, episode, trochees 3:3)
  • λαβὼν γὰρ ἐλάτησ οὐράνιον ἄκρον κλάδον κατῆγεν, ἦγεν, ἦγεν ἐσ μέλαν πέδον· (Euripides, episode, lyric 3:2)
  • τῆσ δὲ πράξεωσ δοκούσησ ἔχειν ἤδη τὸν οἰκεῖον καιρόν, ἐξώρμων δίχα διελόντεσ αὑτούσ, οἱ μὲν περὶ Πελοπίδαν καὶ Δαμοκλείδαν ἐπὶ τὸν Λεοντίδαν καὶ τὸν Ὑπάτην ἐγγὺσ ἀλλήλων οἰκοῦντασ, Χάρων δὲ καὶ Μέλων ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀρχίαν καὶ Φίλιππον, ἐσθῆτασ ἐπενδεδυμένοι γυναικείασ τοῖσ θώραξι, καὶ δασεῖσ στεφάνουσ ἐλάτησ τε καὶ πεύκησ περικείμενοι κατασκιάζοντασ τὰ πρόσωπα. (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 11 1:1)
  • ἑστᾶσιν δ’ ἐλάτησ <Βάκχοι> πυκινὸν περὶ δῶμα. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 39)
  • καί τε συναί̈γδην ὡσ εἰ ζωοί περ ἐόντεσ ἔγχεσιν ἠδ’ ἐλάτῃσ αὐτοσχεδὸν ὠριγνῶντο. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 18:4)

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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