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κλεῖθρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κλεῖθρον

Structure: κλειθρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: klei/w

Sense

  1. a bar

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

  • "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)
  • δύο μὲν οὖν ἔστησαν μηχανὰσ ἐπὶ τοῦ χώματοσ, τρεῖσ δ’ ἐπὶ φορτηγῶν πλοίων πλησίον τῶν κλείθρων τοῦ μικροῦ λιμένοσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 85 4:2)
  • διὸ καὶ συνέβη τὴν πόλιν εὐκαίρωσ κειμένην ἐπὶ τῶν κλείθρων εἶναι κυριεύουσαν τῶν εἰσ τὴν ἄνω χώραν ἀναπλεόντων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 50 3:3)
  • ποιουμένων δὲ τὰσ ἀνακρούσεισ τῶν μὲν ἐπὶ τὸν αἰγιαλόν, τῶν δ’ εἰσ μέσον τὸν λιμένα, τινῶν δὲ πρὸσ τὰ τείχη, ταχέωσ ἀπ’ ἀλλήλων διεσπάσθησαν αἱ τριήρεισ ἅπασαι, καὶ χωρισθέντων ἀπὸ τῶν κλείθρων πλήρησ ἦν ὁ λιμὴν τῶν κατ’ ὀλίγουσ ναυμαχούντων. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 13 21:1)
  • τότε μὲν οὖν ἦν ἐνδοξότατα τὰ χωρία ταῦτα, ἡνίκα τῶν κλείθρων ἐκυρίευε τῶν περὶ τὰ στενά, καὶ τοῖσ ἔξω τῶν στενῶν πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐντὸσ ἦσαν ἀγῶνεσ πρωτείων· (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 4 21:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bar

Related

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

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