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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἡμίπλεθρον ἡμιπλέθρω ἡμίπλεθρα
Genitive ἡμιπλέθρου ἡμιπλέθροιν ἡμιπλέθρων
Dative ἡμιπλέθρῳ ἡμιπλέθροιν ἡμιπλέθροις
Accusative ἡμίπλεθρον ἡμιπλέθρω ἡμίπλεθρα
Vocative ἡμίπλεθρον ἡμιπλέθρω ἡμίπλεθρα

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)
  • πρόκειται δὲ τούτου δρυφάκτωμα τετράγωνον ὅσον ἡμιπλέθρου τὴν περίμετρον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 4 24:3)

Synonyms

  1. a half-

Similar forms

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

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