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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

  • ἰὼ πῦρ πνειόντων χοράγ’ ἄστρων, νυχίων φθεγμάτων ἐπίσκοπε, παῖ Διὸσ γένεθλον, προφάνηθ’ ὦναξ, σαῖσ ἅμα περιπόλοισ Θυίαισιν, αἵ σε μαινόμεναι πάννυχοι χορεύουσι τὸν ταμίαν Ιἄκχον. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 21)

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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