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κόλασμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόλασμα κόλασματος

Structure: κολασματ (Stem)

Etym.: kola/zw

Sense

  1. chastisement

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

  • ὁ δὲ Κράσσοσ αὐτόν τε τὸν Μόμμιον ἐδέξατο τραχέωσ, καὶ τοὺσ στρατιώτασ ὁπλίζων αὖθισ ἐγγυητὰσ ᾔτει τῶν ὅπλων, ὅτι φυλάξουσι, πεντακοσίουσ δὲ τοὺσ πρώτουσ, καὶ μάλιστα τοὺσ τρέσαντασ, εἰσ πεντήκοντα διανείμασ δεκάδασ ἀφ’ ἑκάστησ ἀπέκτεινεν ἕνα τὸν κλήρῳ λαχόντα, πάτριόν τι τοῦτο διὰ πολλῶν χρόνων κόλασμα τοῖσ στρατιώταισ ἐπαγαγών. (Plutarch, chapter 10 2:3)
  • ζηλομανὲσ τὸ κόλασμα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 218 1:1)
  • "χαλεπὸν γὰρ ὁ δανεισμὸσ τῆσ ἀκρασίασ κόλασμα καὶ τὸ λῦσαι βαλλάντιον οὐ πάνυ ῥᾴδιον· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 9:20)
  • οὐκ οἶσθ’ ὅτι οἱ μὲν τῷ ἰσχυροτάτῳ κολάσματι νομιζομένῳ σιδήρῳ παιόμενοι ὅμωσ ἐθέλουσι καὶ πάλιν μάχεσθαι τοῖσ αὐτοῖσ; (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 26:2)

Synonyms

  1. chastisement

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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