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ἠλακάτη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἠλακάτη

Structure: ἠλακατ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a distaff, the stalk

Declension

First 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

  • ὦ τριέλικτον Μοῖραι δινεῦσαι νῆμα κατ’ ἠλακάτασ, πῶσ οὐκ ἐκλώσασθε πανάφθιτον ἦμαρ ἀοιδῷ ἄφθιτα μησαμένᾳ δῶρ’ Ἑλικωνιάδων ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 14 1:1)
  • ἁνία γὰρ καὶ κημόσ, ὃ τ’ εὐόρνιθι Τανάγρᾳ οἰωνὸσ βλαστῶν, θοῦροσ ἐγερσιμάχασ, οὐχ ἅδεν οὐδ’ ἐπέοικεν ὑπωροφίαισι γυναιξίν, ἀλλὰ τὰ τ’ ἠλακάτασ ἔργα τὰ θ’ ἱστοπόδων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 4242)
  • "ἀλλά μοι δοκεῖ Πλάτων ὡσ ἀτράκτουσ καὶ ἠλακάτασ τοὺσ ἄξονασ, σφονδύλουσ δὲ τοὺσ ἀστέρασ, ἐξηλλαγμένωσ ἐνταῦθα καὶ τὰσ Μούσασ Σειρῆνασ ὀνομάζειν εἰρούσασ τὰ θεῖα καὶ λεγούσασ ἐν Αἵδου, καθάπερ Σοφοκλέουσ Ὀδυσσεὺσ φησι Σειρῆνασ εἰσαφικέσθαι Φόρκου κόρασ, θροοῦντε τοὺσ Αἵδου νόμουσ" Μοῦσαι δ’ εἰσὶν ὀκτὼ καὶ συμπεριπολοῦσι ταῖσ ὀκτὼ σφαίραισ, μία δὲ τὸν περὶ γῆν εἴληχε τόπον. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 11:9)

Synonyms

  1. a distaff

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

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