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ἔρεισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔρεισμα ἔρεισματος

Structure: ἐρεισματ (Stem)

Etym.: e)rei/dw

Sense

  1. a prop, stay, support, the props

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

  • Τὰ δὲ ἑρμάσματα καὶ ἀποστηρίγματα, οἱο͂ν στήθει, πλευρῇσι, κεφαλῇ, καὶ τοῖσιν ἄλλοισιν, ὅσα τοιαῦτα‧ τὰ μὲν, σφυγμῶν ἕνεκεν, ὡσ μὴ ἐνσείηται‧ τὰ δὲ, καὶ τῶν διαστασίων τῶν κατὰ τὰσ ἁρμονίασ ἐν τοῖσι κατὰ τὴν κεφαλὴν ὀστέοισιν, ἐρεισμάτων χάριν‧ ἐπί τε βηχέων, ἢ πταρμέων, ἢ ἄλλησ κινήσιοσ, οἱᾶ τὰ κατὰ θώρηκα καὶ κεφαλὴν ἀποστηρίγματα γίγνεται. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., KAT' IHTREION., 25.1)
  • τῶν δ’ ἐρεισμάτων οὐ δυναμένων ὑποφέρειν τὸ βάροσ, ἀλλ’ ἐνδόντων, πεσεῖν συνέβη τὸ τεῖχοσ πρὸ τοῦ πῦρ ἐμβαλεῖν τοὺσ Μακεδόνασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 100 5:1)
  • τῶν ἐρεισμάτων ἐμπρησθέντων, τηνικάδε πιστεύσαντεσ τοῖσ λεγομένοισ παρέδοσαν τὴν πόλιν. (Polybius, Histories, book 16, chapter 11 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. a prop

Related

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

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