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ἐμβολή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμβολή

Structure: ἐμβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)mba/llw

Sense

  1. a putting into, insertion
  2. a breaking in, inroad into an enemy's country, foray
  3. an assault, attack, charge, the charge made by one ship upon another, shocks
  4. the stroke
  5. a way into, entrance, pass
  6. the head of a battering-ram

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

  • δέσμιαι δὲ δημόσιαι μέχρι τῆσ εἰσ τὸ πλοῖον ἐμβολῆσ εἵλκοντο μετὰ βίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 4:7)
  • καὶ ὁ Ἄδραστοσ ἐπὶ τὸν σῦν ἀφεὶσ τὴν λόγχην ἐκείνου μὲν ἁμαρτήσεται, φονεύσει δὲ τὸν Κροίσου παῖδα, ὡσ ἂν ἀπ’ ἰσχυρᾶσ ἐμβολῆσ τῶν Μοιρῶν φερομένου τοῦ ἀκοντίου ἐπὶ τὸν νεανίσκον. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 12:6)
  • ἢν δέ ποτε καὶ ἐφίκηται, ἄκρον μὲν ἐπιλίγδην ἅπτεται, βαθεῖαν δὲ οὐκ ἐργάζεται πληγὴν οὐ γὰρ ἀπ’ ἰσχυρᾶσ ἐμβολῆσ ἀπεστέλλετο. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 36:5)
  • καὶ οἱ τῷ ἕκτῳ δ̓ ἐφεστηκότεσ εἰ καὶ μὴ αὐταῖσ ταῖσ σαρίσαισ ἀλλὰ τῷ γε βάρει τῶν σωμάτων συνεπήρειδον τοῖσ πρὸ σφῶν τεταγμένοισ, ὡσ τήν τε ἐμβολὴν τὴν ἐσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ τ̣̔ (Arrian, chapter 12 16:1)
  • τότε τοίνυν ἐγὼ τὴν μὲν λόγχην ἀκοντίσασ διέπειρα τὸν ἵππαρχον αὐτῶν καὶ τὸν ἵππον, ἐπὶ δὲ τὸ συνεστηκὸσ ἔτι αὐτῶν ‐ ἦσαν γάρ τινεσ οἳ ἔμενον διαλύσαντεσ μὲν τὴν φάλαγγα, ἐσ πλαίσιον δὲ συναγαγόντεσ αὑτούσ ‐ ἐπὶ τούτουσ ἐγὼ σπασάμενοσ τὴν σπάθην ἅπαντα τῷ θυμῷ ἐπελάσασ ἀνατρέπω μὲν ὅσον ἑπτὰ τοὺσ προεστῶτασ αὐτῶν τῇ ἐμβολῇ τοῦ ἵππου· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:2)
  • ἐκ τούτου Κλεομένη πρῶτον οἱ ἔφοροι πέμπουσι καταληψόμενον τὸ περὶ τὴν Βέλβιναν Ἀθήναιον, ἐμβολὴ δὲ τῆσ Λακωνικῆσ τὸ χωρίον ἐστί, καὶ τότε πρὸσ τοὺσ Μεγαλοπολίτασ ἦν ἐπίδικον. (Plutarch, Cleomenes, chapter 4 1:1)
  • πρῶτον τοιγαροῦν ἢν μὲν ἡ καρδίη πάθῃ, οὐκ εἰσ μακρὸν τοῦ θανάτου ἡ ἐμβολή. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 6)
  • Ἐστὶ δὲ ἐμβολὴ ὤμου, καὶ ἐσ τοὐπίσω ὑπερβάλλοντα τὸν πῆχυν ἐπὶ τὴν Ῥάχιν, ἔπειτα τῇ μὲν ἑτέρῃ χειρὶ ἀνακλᾷν ἐσ τὸ ἄνω τοῦ ἀγκῶνοσ ἐχόμενον, τῇ δὲ ἑτέρῃ παρὰ τὸ ἄρθρον ὄπισθεν ἐρείδειν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 2.4)
  • Αὕτη ἡ ἐμβολὴ, καὶ ἡ πρόσθεν εἰρημένη, οὐ κατὰ φύσιν ἐοῦσαι, ὅμωσ ἀμφισφάλλουσαι τὸ ἄρθρον, ἀναγκάζουσιν ἐμπίπτειν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 2.5)

Synonyms

  1. a putting into

  2. the stroke

  3. a way into

  4. the head of a battering-ram

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

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