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ἕλκος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕλκος ἕλκεος

Structure: ἑλκο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e(/lkw

Sense

  1. a wound
  2. a festering wound, the festering bite, of plague-ulcers
  3. a wound, loss

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

  • καὶ γένηται ἐν τῷ τόπῳ τοῦ ἕλκουσ οὐλὴ λευκή, ἢ τηλαυγὴσ λευκαίνουσα, ἢ πυρρίζουσα, καὶ ὀφθήσεται τῷ ἱερεῖ, (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 13:19)
  • ἐὰν δὲ κατὰ χώραν μείνῃ τὸ τηλαύγημα καὶ μὴ διαχέηται, οὐλὴ τοῦ ἕλκουσ ἐστί, καὶ καθαριεῖ αὐτὸν ὁ ἱερεύσ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 13:23)
  • ἀλλ’ οὐχ ἕλκουσ’ ἅνδρεσ ὁμοίωσ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, strophe 26)
  • ἀλλ’ οἱ Λάκωνεσ ὦγάθ’ ἕλκουσ’ ἀνδρικῶσ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, strophe 2 1:4)
  • "τὸ δ’ ἐμπαθὲσ ἐν ἀρχῇ καὶ δάκνον, ὦ μακάριε Ζεύξιππε, μὴ φοβηθῇσ ὡσ ἕλκοσ ἢ ὀδαξησμὸν καίτοι καὶ μεθ’ ἕλκουσ ἴσωσ οὐδὲν ἢ δεινὸν ὥσπερ τὰ δένδρα συμφυῆ γενέσθαι πρὸσ γυναῖκα χρηστήν. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 241)

Synonyms

  1. a wound

  2. a wound

Related

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

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