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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

  • οὐ τείχεσι πόλεων μυριάνδρων ἐκμετρουμένη δύναμισ οὐδὲ στόλοι δι’ ὀρῶν πλέοντεσ, οὐδὲ μάστιγεσ οὐδὲ πέδαι, μανικὰ καὶ βάρβαρα κολαστήρια θαλάσσησ, ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν ἐκτὸσ ἐν ὀλίγοισ ὅπλοισ φιλοτιμία πολλὴ καὶ ζῆλοσ ἡλικίασ παραλλήλου καὶ ἅμιλλα περὶ δόξησ καὶ ἀρετῆσ ἑταίρων· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 121)
  • οὐ τείχεσι πόλεων μυριάνδρων ἐκμετρουμένη δύναμισ οὐδὲ στόλοι δι’ ὀρῶν πλέοντεσ, οὐδὲ μάστιγεσ οὐδὲ πέδαι, μανικὰ καὶ βάρβαρα κολαστήρια θαλάττησ, ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν ἐκτὸσ ἐν ὀλίγοισ ὅπλοισ φιλοτιμία πολλὴ καὶ ζῆλοσ ἡλικίασ παραλλήλου καὶ ἅμιλλα περὶ δόξησ καὶ ἀρετῆσ ἑταίρων· (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 122)

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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