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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

  • ἀκούεισ δέ γε ἴσωσ καὶ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ τοῦ ἐμοῦ πέρι τοῦ Ἡρακλέουσ, ὡσ διαδέξαιτό ποτε αὐτὸσ ἐκεῖνοσ τὸν Ἄτλαντα, καὶ ἀναπαύσειε πρὸσ ὀλίγον τοῦ ἄχθουσ ὑποθεὶσ ἑαυτὸν τῷ φορτίῳ. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 4:9)
  • καὶ πονεῖν οὗτοι μὲν τὰ ὅπλα φέροντεσ ἐμελέτων, ἅ ἐστιν ἅπασιν ἀνθρώποισ ηὑρημένα ὡσ ἂν εὐφορώτατα εἰή, ἡμεῖσ δέ γ’, ἔφη, ἐν μεγάλοισ φορτίοισ καὶ βαδίζειν καὶ τρέχειν ἠναγκαζόμεθα, ὥστε νῦν ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν τὸ τῶν ὅπλων φόρημα πτεροῖσ μᾶλλον ἐοικέναι ἢ φορτίῳ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 17:1)
  • περιελαύνουσι δ’ αὐτοὺσ ἱππεῖσ ἄγοντεσ τὸν οἰκέτην, ὃσ ἐναπέθετο τῷ τοῦ Βενιαμὶν φορτίῳ τὸν σκύφον. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 2 161:2)

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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