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γόμφωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: γόμφωμα

Structure: γομφωματ (Stem)

Etym.: from gomfo/w

Sense

  1. that which is fastened by bolts, frame-work

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

  • ἔτι δὲ ἄπωθεν αὐτῆσ προσφερομένησ πρὸσ τὸ τεῖχοσ ἐξήλατο λίθοσ δεκατάλαντοσ ὁλκήν, εἶτα ἕτεροσ ἐπὶ τούτῳ καὶ τρίτοσ, ὧν οἱ μὲν αὐτῇ ἐμπεσόντεσ μεγάλῳ κτύπῳ καὶ κλύδωνι τῆσ μηχανῆσ τήν τε βάσιν συνηλόησαν καὶ τὸ γόμφωμα διέσεισαν καὶ διέσπασαν τοῦ ζεύγματοσ, ὥστε τὸν Μάρκελλον ἀπορούμενον αὐτόν τε ταῖσ ναυσὶν ἀποπλεῖν κατὰ τάχοσ καὶ τοῖσ πεζοῖσ ἀναχώρησιν παρεγγυῆσαι. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 15 4:1)

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

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