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ἔμβολον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔμβολον ἐμβόλου

Structure: ἐμβολ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. wedge, peg, stopper
  2. bolt, bar
  3. architrave
  4. prow of warships (rammed into opposing ships)
  5. (in the plural) The rostra, or tribune of the Latin forum
  6. wedge-shaped order of battle (Latin cuneus, acies cuneata)
  7. graft

Declension

Second 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

  • τὸ δὲ ἥμισυ τοῦ ῥόμβου ἔμβολόν ἐστιν, ὥστ̓ ἐνταὐτῷ δεδήλωταί μοι καὶ τοῦ ἐμβόλου τὸ σχῆμα. (Arrian, chapter 17 4:1)
  • τῆσ δὲ πρὸσ τὸν Ἔμβολον καλούμενον ἐσόδου τῇ μὲν Ἄρεωσ Ἱππίου, τῇ δὲ Ἀθηνᾶσ Ἱππίασ βωμόσ, ἐσ δὲ αὐτὸν τὸν Ἔμβολον ἐσελθόντων Τύχησ ἐστὶν ἀγαθῆσ βωμὸσ καὶ Πανόσ τε καὶ Ἀφροδίτησ, ἐνδοτάτω δὲ τοῦ Ἐμβόλου Νυμφῶν ἃσ Ἀκμηνὰσ καλοῦσιν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 15 9:1)
  • αὐτὸ δὲ τὸ ἄκρον καὶ προπεπτωκὸσ εἰσ τὴν θάλατταν Ἀρτεμίδωροσ εἰκάζει πλοίῳ, γενόμενοσ, φησίν, ἐν τῷ τόπῳ, προσλαμβάνειν δὲ τῷ σχήματι νησίδια τρία, τὸ μὲν ἐμβόλου τάξιν ἔχον τὰ δὲ ἐπωτίδων, ὑφόρμουσ ἔχοντα μετρίουσ. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 1 8:6)

Synonyms

  1. bolt

  2. prow of warships

  3. wedge-shaped order of battle

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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