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κολαστήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κολαστήριον κολαστήριου

Structure: κολαστηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: kola/zw

Sense

  1. a house of correction

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 κακία τῶν κολαστηρίων ἐφ’ ἑαυτὴν ἕκαστον ἐξ αὑτῆσ τεκταίνεται, δεινοῦ τισ οὖσα βίου δημιουργὸσ οἴκτουσ σὺν αἰσχύνῃ φόβουσ τε πολλοὺσ καὶ πάθη χαλεπὰ καὶ μεταμελείασ καὶ ταραχὰσ ἀπαύστουσ ἔχοντοσ. (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 9 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a house of correction

Related

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

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