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ἕρκος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἕρκος ἕρκεος

Structure: ἑρκο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)/rgw, ei(/rgw

Sense

  1. a fence, hedge, wall, the place enclosed, the court-yard, the ring or wall, the teeth
  2. any fence, a defence against
  3. a net, toils, snare

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 μὴν δοκῶ σφᾶσ ἐν λόχμαισ ὄρνιθασ ὣσ λέκτρων ἔχεσθαι φιλτάτοισ ἐν ἑρ́κεσιν. (Euripides, episode 1:11)
  • δόκιμοσ δ’ οὔτισ ὑποστὰσ μεγάλῳ ῥεύματι φωτῶν ἐχυροῖσ ἑρ́κεσιν εἴργειν ἄμαχον κῦμα θαλάσσασ· (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, antistrophe 21)
  • γαίᾳ δὲ καυθείσᾳ πυρὶ καρπὸσ ἐλαίασ ἔμολεν Ἥρασ τὸν εὐάνορα λαὸν ἐν ἀγγέων ἑρ́κεσιν παμποικίλοισ. (Pindar, Odes, nemean odes, nemean 10 11:3)
  • οὕτω καλὸν δὴ καὶ τὸ κατθανεῖν ἐμοί, ἰδόντα τοῦτον τῆσ δίκησ ἐν ἑρ́κεσιν. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode 1:20)
  • οὐκέτι γὰρ δουλώσει ἐν ἑρ́κεσιν, ἐγγύθι λεύσσων Νηλέα καὶ Πελίαν τούσδε καθεξομένουσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 3, chapter 94)

Synonyms

  1. any fence

Related

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

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