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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

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 πᾶσ αὐτῶν πλοῦτοσ ηὑρέθη μετὰ τὴν ὑπ’ Ἀλεξάνδρου τῆσ πόλεωσ κατασκαφὴν ἐν ταλάντοισ τετρακοσίοισ τεσσαράκοντα, φησίν, ὅτι τε μικρόψυχοι ἦσαν καὶ τὰ περὶ τὴν τροφὴν λίχνοι, παρασκευάζοντεσ ἐν τοῖσ δείπνοισ θρῖα καὶ ἑψητοὺσ καὶ ἀφύασ καὶ ἐγκρασιχόλουσ καὶ ἀλλᾶντασ καὶ σχελίδασ καὶ ἔτνοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 301)
  • Καμαριναίων τε καὶ Φιδηναίων φυγάδεσ, οἱ μὲν τὴν ἅλωσιν καὶ τὴν φυγὴν τῆσ πατρίδοσ, οἱ δὲ τὸν ἀνδραποδισμὸν καὶ τὴν κατασκαφὴν ὀδυρόμενοι, παρεκάλουν αὐτοὺσ εἰσ τὸν πόλεμον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 51 1:3)
  • εἰ δὲ προσέκειτο καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ ὑμῶν ἀνέξεσθαι κελευόντων, οὐκ εἰκὸσ ἦν ὑμᾶσ ἐπὶ μὲν τοῖσ ὁμήροισ, αἰτήματι σοφεῖ, τὴν πόλιν αὐτόνομον ἔσεσθα ι προαγορεῦσαι, ἐν δὲ προσθήκῃ τῶν ὁμήρων ποιεῖσθαι τὴν Καρχηδόνοσ αὐτῆσ κατασκαφήν, ἣν εἰ θέμισ ὑμῖν ἐστὶν ἀνελεῖν, πῶσ ἐλευθέραν ἔτι ἀφήσετε ἢ αὐτόνομον, ὡσ ἐλέγετε; (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 12 4:15)
  • κατὰ δὲ τὴν Ἰταλίαν μετὰ τὴν κατασκαφὴν τῆσ Συβάρεωσ ὑπὸ τῶν Κροτωνιατῶν ὕστερον ἔτεσιν ὀκτὼ πρὸσ τοῖσ πεντήκοντα Θετταλὸσ συναγαγὼν τοὺσ ὑπολοίπουσ τῶν Συβαριτῶν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ᾤκισε τὴν Σύβαριν, κειμένην ἀνὰ μέσον ποταμῶν δυοῖν, τοῦ τε Συβάριοσ καὶ Κράθιοσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 90 5:2)
  • " αἴτιον δ’ ὅτι πλούσιοι γενόμενοι Ῥωμαῖοι μετὰ τὴν Καρχηδόνοσ καὶ Κορίνθου κατασκαφὴν οἰκετείαισ ἐχρῶντο πολλαῖσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 5 4:7)

Synonyms

  1. a rasing to the ground

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

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