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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

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

  • ὥστε τὰσ ἐμπορίασ οὐ νήσων οὐδὲ λιμένων οὐδὲ πορθμῶν τινων καὶ ἰσθμῶν, ἀλλὰ σχεδὸν ἁπάσησ τῆσ οἰκουμένησ γίγνεσθαι παρ’ ὑμῖν. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 48:2)
  • καὶ αἱ σύρροιαι δὲ ὡσαύτωσ ὠφελοῦσι κατὰ τὰσ ἐπὶ πολὺ πλήμασ διαχεομένασ ἐπὶ τῶν διειργόντων ἰσθμῶν τοὺσ πόρουσ καὶ πλωτοὺσ ἀπεργαζομένασ, ὥστε πορθμεύεσθαι καὶ ἐκ τῶν ποταμῶν εἰσ τὰσ ἀναχύσεισ κἀκεῖθεν δεῦρο. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 2 10:4)

Related

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

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