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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 πεντεκαίδεκα πήχεων τὸ ὕψοσ τῶν ἱστίων τῷ κλίτει τῷ ἑνί. στῦλοι αὐτῶν τρεῖσ, καὶ αἱ βάσεισ αὐτῶν τρεῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 27:14)
  • καὶ τὸ κλίτοσ τὸ δεύτερον δεκαπέντε πήχεων τῶν ἱστίων τὸ ὕψοσ. στῦλοι αὐτῶν τρεῖσ, καὶ αἱ βάσεισ αὐτῶν τρεῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 27:15)
  • ἀντὶ δὲ ἱστίων ὁ ἄνεμοσ ἐμπίπτων τῇ ὕλῃ, πολλῇ οὔσῃ ἐν ἑκάστῃ, ἐκόλπου τε ταύτην καὶ ἔφερε τὴν νῆσον ᾗ ἐθέλοι ὁ κυβερνήτησ· (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 1 40:7)
  • ἐξ Ἰταλίασ γὰρ πολλὴν κομιζομένην παρὰ Καίσαροσ αἱ Βρούτου νῆεσ ἐπιπεσοῦσαι διέφθειραν, ὧν ὀλίγοι παντάπασι τοὺσ πολεμίουσ διαφυγόντεσ ὑπὸ λιμοῦ τῶν ἱστίων καὶ τῶν σχοινίων ἐσθίοντεσ διεγένοντο. (Plutarch, Brutus, chapter 47 1:4)
  • καὶ γὰρ αὐτὸσ οὐ κεκλιμένησ μὲν ἤδη τῆσ πατρίδοσ, ὥσπερ ὁ Φωκίων, πολὺν δὲ χειμῶνα καὶ σάλον ἐχούσησ, ὅσον ἱστίων καὶ κάλων ἐπιλαβέσθαι καὶ παραστῆναι τοῖσ πλέον δυναμένοισ πολιτευσάμενοσ, οἰάκων δὲ καὶ κυβερνήσεωσ ἀπωσθείσ, ὅμωσ μέγαν ἀγῶνα τῇ τύχῃ περιέστησεν. (Plutarch, chapter 3 3:1)
  • ὁ Ζεὺσ μ’ ἐκάλεσε, Πέλοπὶ γ’ ἔρανον ἱστιῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 20 2:1)

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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