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ἱστίον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱστίον ἱστίου

Structure: ἱστι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: i(sto/s

Sense

  1. any web, a sail, sail, the sails

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

  • καὶ τὸ καταπέτασμα τῆσ πύλησ τῆσ αὐλῆσ ἔργον ποικιλτοῦ ἐξ ὑακίνθου καὶ πορφύρασ καὶ κοκκίνου νενησμένου καὶ βύσσου κεκλωσμένησ, εἴκοσι πήχεων τὸ μῆκοσ, καὶ τὸ ὕψοσ καὶ τὸ εὖροσ πέντε πήχεων ἐξισούμενον τοῖσ ἱστίοισ τῆσ αὐλῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 37:16)
  • οὐκέτ’ ἂν φθάνοισ ἂν αὔραν ἱστίοισ καραδοκῶν, ὡσ μίαν τριῶν Ἐρινὺν τῆσδέ μ’ ἐξάξων χθονόσ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, trochees11)
  • ̓ σὺ δὲ ὁ Κύκλωψ, ἀναπετάσασ τὸ στόμα καὶ ὡσ ἔνι πλατύτατον κεχηνώσ, ἠνείχου τυφλούμενοσ ὑπ’ αὐτοῦ τὴν γνάθον, μᾶλλον δὲ ὥσπερ ἡ Χάρυβδισ αὐτοῖσ ναύταισ καὶ πηδαλίοισ καὶ ἱστίοισ ὅλον ζητῶν καταπιεῖν τὸν Οὖτιν. (Lucian, Pseudologista, (no name) 24:8)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅπωσ ὦ γεννάδα μὴ πρὸσ ὀργὴν ἀντιλέξεισ, ἀλλὰ συστείλασ ἄκροισι χρώμενοσ τοῖσ ἱστίοισ, εἶτα μᾶλλον μᾶλλον ἄξεισ καὶ φυλάξεισ, ἡνίκ’ ἂν τὸ πνεῦμα λεῖον καὶ καθεστηκὸσ λάβῃσ. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Agon, antistrophe 18)
  • "ἡ δὲ τριήρησ ἐφ’ ἧσ αὐτὸσ κατέπλει μέχρι μὲν τῶν κλείθρων τοῦ Πειραιέωσ προέτρεχεν ἁλουργοῖσ ἱστίοισ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 47 3:20)

Synonyms

  1. any web

Related

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

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