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ἰσθμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἰσθμός ἰσθμοῦ

Structure: ἰσθμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ei)=mi ibo

Sense

  1. any narrow passage, a neck of land, an isthmus
  2. the Isthmus

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἰσθμός ἰσθμώ ἰσθμοί
Genitive ἰσθμοῦ ἰσθμοῖν ἰσθμῶν
Dative ἰσθμῷ ἰσθμοῖν ἰσθμοῖς
Accusative ἰσθμόν ἰσθμώ ἰσθμούς
Vocative ἰσθμέ ἰσθμώ ἰσθμοί

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

  • "ᾗ μία φύσισ τῆσ ἔξω θαλάσσησ ἐστί, σύρρουν καὶ συνεχὲσ πέλαγοσ, ἡ δ’ ἔμφασισ οὐ μία τῶν ἐν τῇ σελήνῃ μελασμάτων, ἀλλ’ οἱο͂ν ἰσθμοὺσ ἔχουσα, τοῦ λαμπροῦ διαιροῦντοσ καὶ διορίζοντοσ τὸ, σκιερόν· (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 4 1:1)
  • διάρσει γὰρ ἱστίων θέουσαι καὶ διὰ τὴν τῶν πνευμάτων βίαν πολλάκισ νυκτὸσ ὠθούμεναι, ὁτὲ μὲν πέτραισ προσπεσοῦσαι ναυαγοῦσι, ποτὲ δ’ εἰσ τεναγώδεισ ἰσθμοὺσ ἐμπίπτουσιν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 40 5:1)
  • πλεῖστον δ’ ἡ θάλαττα γεωγραφεῖ καὶ σχηματίζει τὴν γῆν, κόλπουσ ἀπεργαζομένη καὶ πελάγη καὶ πορθμούσ, ὁμοίωσ δὲ ἰσθμοὺσ καὶ χερρονήσουσ καὶ ἄκρασ· (Strabo, Geography, book 2, chapter 5 34:1)
  • ἔστι δὲ ἑτερόμηκεσ τὸ ὅλον τῆσ νήσου σχῆμα, καί που καὶ ἰσθμοὺσ ποιεῖ κατὰ τὰσ τὸ πλάτοσ διοριζούσασ πλευράσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 6 4:5)

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

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