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ἔχμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔχμα ἔχματος

Structure: ἐχματ (Stem)

Etym.: e)/xw

Sense

  1. that which holds;
  2. a hindrance, obstacle
  3. a bulwark, defence against
  4. a hold-fast, stay, bands, stays, props for the ships

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

  • ἦ γὰρ ἐπηλυσίησ πολυπήμονοσ ἔσσεαι ἔχμα ζώουσ’· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 4:8)
  • τοὶ δὲ βοείασ ἀσπίδασ ἡμίσεεσ, δῄων θοὸν ἔχμα βολάων, προσχόμενοι νόστῳ ἐπαμύνετε. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 4:12)

Synonyms

  1. that which holds

  2. a hindrance

  3. a bulwark

Related

Similar forms

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

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