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φορτίον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φορτίον φορτίου

Structure: φορτι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: fo/rtos

Sense

  1. a load, burden
  2. a ship's freight or lading, wares, merchandise
  3. a child in the womb
  4. a heavy burden

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

  • Χορτάσματα καὶ ράβδοσ καὶ φορτία ὄνῳ, ἄρτοσ καὶ παιδεία καὶ ἔργον οἰκέτῃ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 33:25)
  • τοῖσ δὲ δὴ ἐμπόροισ καλῶσ εἶχε μὴ κοτυλίζειν, ἀλλ’ ἁθρόα τὰ φορτία πεπρᾶσθαι, ἐκεῖνοί τε διδόντεσ δι’ ἄλλην οὐ μισθὸν παρῆγον ἀλλὰ τὴν ἀγορὰν ἐν ὁλκάσι, <καὶ> ἄνδρα ταμίαν ἐπέστησαν ἐφ’ ἑκάστῃ τῶν νεῶν. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 2 39:2)
  • νῆ’ ὀλίγην αἰνεῖν, μεγάλῃ δ’ ἐνὶ φορτία θέσθαι. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 71:2)
  • καυάξαισ καὶ φορτία μαυρωθείη. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 75:16)
  • ἀλλὰ τὰ νῦν σοι, ὦ ξεναγέ, Παννυχὶσ ἐμή ἐστι, καὶ τάλαντον εἴληφε, λήψεται δὲ ἤδη καὶ ἕτερον, ἐπειδὰν τὰ φορτία διαθώμεθα. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 4:13)

Synonyms

  1. a load

  2. a ship's freight or lading

  3. a child in the womb

  4. a heavy burden

Related

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

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