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φέρμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: φέρμα φέρματος

Structure: φερματ (Stem)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. that which is borne, the fruit of the womb, bairn, bear)

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

  • καρποτελῆ δέ τοι Ζεὺσ ἐπικραινέτω φέρματι γᾶν πανώρῳ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 31)
  • ὅπωσ Ἀχαι‐ ῶν δίθρονον κράτοσ, Ἑλλάδοσ ἥβασ ξύμφρονα ταγάν, πέμπει σὺν δορὶ καὶ χερὶ πράκτορι θούριοσ ὄρνισ Τευκρίδ’ ἐπ’ αἰᾶν, οἰωνῶν βασιλεὺσ βασιλεῦσι νε‐ ῶν ὁ κελαινόσ, ὅ τ’ ἐξόπιν ἀργᾶσ, φανέντεσ ἴ‐ κταρ μελάθρων χερὸσ ἐκ δοριπάλτου παμπρέπτοισ ἐν ἕδραισιν, βοσκόμενοι λαγίναν, ἐρικύμονα φέρματι γένναν, βλαβέντα λοισθίων δρόμων. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 13)

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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