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ἡμίπλεθρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἡμίπλεθρον ἡμίπλεθρου

Structure: ἡμιπλεθρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a half-

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

  • τὸ λοιπὸν οὖν γίγνεται ὡσ ἡμίπλεθρον, ὃ δεῖ ὅταν λωφήσωσιν οἱ λίθοι παραδραμεῖν. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 7 7:3)
  • ἡ δὲ αὖ διὰ Τρηχῖνοσ ἔσοδοσ ἐσ τὴν Ἑλλάδα ἐστὶ τῇ στεινοτάτη ἡμίπλεθρον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 176 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a half-

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

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