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κόλπωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόλπωμα κόλπωματος

Structure: κολπωματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. a folded garment

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

  • Καὶ ταῦτα τὰ μέτρα τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου ἐν πήχει τοῦ πήχεωσ καὶ παλαιστῆσ. κόλπωμα βάθουσ ἐπὶ πῆχυν καὶ πῆχυσ τὸ εὖροσ, καὶ γεῖσοσ ἐπὶ τὸ χεῖλοσ αὐτοῦ κυκλόθεν σπιθαμῆσ. καὶ τοῦτο τὸ ὕψοσ τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 43:13)
  • καί φησι τὸν Μάριον ἐλπίσαντα τοῖσ ἄκροισ μάλιστα καὶ κατὰ κέρασ συμπεσεῖν τὰσ φάλαγγασ, ὅπωσ ἴδιοσ ἡ νίκη τῶν ἐκείνου στρατιωτῶν γένοιτο καὶ μὴ μετάσχοι τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ ὁ Κάτλοσ μηδὲ προσμίξειε τοῖσ πολεμίοισ, κόλπωμα τῶν μέσων, ὥσπερ εἰώθεν ἐν μεγάλοισ μετώποισ, λαμβανόντων, οὕτω διαστῆσαι τὰσ δυνάμεισ. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 25 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a folded garment

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

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