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φθέγμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φθέγμα φθέγματος

Structure: φθεγματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. the sound of the voice, a voice
  2. language, speech
  3. a saying, word
  4. cries, roaring, grinding

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

  • φέρε, ἀνδρικῆσ ψυχῆσ ἐν πόνοισ ἐχομένησ καὶ δειλῆσ ἐν τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ τε καὶ ἴσοισ ἆρ’ ὅμοια τά τε σχήματα καὶ τὰ φθέγματα συμβαίνει γίγνεσθαι; (Plato, Laws, book 2 15:8)
  • τούτων τοίνυν δεῖ χάριν τοῖσ φθόγγοισ τῆσ λύρασ προσχρῆσθαι, σαφηνείασ ἕνεκα τῶν χορδῶν, τόν τε κιθαριστὴν καὶ τὸν παιδευόμενον, ἀποδιδόντασ πρόσχορδα τὰ φθέγματα τοῖσ φθέγμασι· (Plato, Laws, book 7 152:1)

Synonyms

  1. the sound of the voice

  2. language

  3. a saying

Related

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

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