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κάταγμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάταγμα κάταγματος

Structure: καταγματ (Stem)

Etym.: kata/gw

Sense

  1. wool drawn or spun out, worsted, a flock of wool

Declension

Third 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 νὴ Δία τάσ γε πόλεισ, ὁπόσαι τῆσ γῆσ τῆσδ’ εἰσὶν ἄποικοι, διαγιγνώσκειν ὅτι ταῦθ’ ἡμῖν ὥσπερ τὰ κατάγματα κεῖται χωρὶσ ἕκαστον· (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Agon, antepirrheme22)
  • κᾆτ’ ἀπὸ τούτων πάντων τὸ κάταγμα λαβόντασ δεῦρο ξυνάγειν καὶ συναθροίξειν εἰσ ἕν, κἄπειτα ποιῆσαι τολύπην μεγάλην κᾆτ’ ἐκ ταύτησ τῷ δήμῳ χλαῖναν ὑφῆναι. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Agon, antepirrheme23)
  • τὸ γὰρ κάταγμα τυγχάνω ῥίψασά πωσ τῆσ οἰόσ, ᾧ προύχριον, ἐσ μέσην φλόγα, ἀκτῖν’ ἐσ ἡλιῶτιν· (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 1:10)
  • τῶν περὶ ξαντικὴν ἔργων μηκυνθέν τε καὶ σχὸν πλάτοσ λέγομεν εἶναι κάταγμά τι; (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 155:5)

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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