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κατασκαφή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατασκαφή

Structure: κατασκαφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from kataska/ptw

Sense

  1. a rasing to the ground, destruction
  2. grave deep dug, the grave

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κατασκαφή κατασκαφᾱ́ κατασκαφαί
Genitive κατασκαφῆς κατασκαφαῖν κατασκαφῶν
Dative κατασκαφῇ κατασκαφαῖν κατασκαφαῖς
Accusative κατασκαφήν κατασκαφᾱ́ κατασκαφᾱ́ς
Vocative κατασκαφή κατασκαφᾱ́ κατασκαφαί

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

  • ὁ δὲ Στωικὸσ Λαπίθησ, ὥσπερ ἐξ ἀδαμαντίνησ ὕλησ ὑπ’ αὐτῶν τῆσ ἀπαθείασ κεχαλκευμένοσ, οὐκ ἄτρωτόσ ἐστιν οὐδ’ ἄνοσοσ οὐδ’ ἀναλγήσ, ἄφοβοσ δὲ μένει καὶ ἄλυποσ καὶ ἀήττητοσ καὶ ἀβίαστοσ, τιτρωσκόμενοσ ἀλγῶν στρεβλούμενοσ, ἐν κατασκαφαῖσ πατρίδοσ ἐν πάθεσιν, τοιούτοισ. (Plutarch, Compendium Argumenti Stoicos absurdiora poetis dicere, section 1 1:2)
  • Ἐτεοκλέα μὲν τόνδ’ ἐπ’ εὐνοίᾳ χθονὸσ θάπτειν ἔδοξε γῆσ φίλαισ κατασκαφαῖσ· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode2)
  • μένων γὰρ εὐμενὴσ ἢ μετρίωσ γοῦν ἀπηχθημένοσ, οὐκ ἂν τοσούτων μὲν ἀνθρώπων περιεῖδεν ὄλεθρον, προήκατο δὲ τὴν ἱερωτάτην αὐτοῦ πόλιν πυρὶ καὶ κατασκαφαῖσ πολεμίων. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 371:1)

Synonyms

  1. a rasing to the ground

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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