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κολυμβήθρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κολυμβήθρα

Structure: κολυμβηθρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from ko/lumbos

Sense

  1. a swimming-bath

Declension

First 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

  • μία μὲν πέτρα συνεχὴσ οὐ διήκουσα, λίθοι δὲ ὀρύσσονται σχῆμα τοῖσ ποταμίοισ ἐοικότεσ, ἄλλωσ μὲν δυσεργεῖσ, ἢν δὲ ἐπεργασθῶσιν, ἐπικοσμήσαιεν ἂν καὶ θεῶν ἱερά, κολυμβήθραισ δὲ καὶ ὕδασι συντελοῦσι μάλιστα ἐσ κάλλοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 21 7:1)
  • τοῦ δὲ περὶ τὸν τόπον ἰδιώματοσ θερινωτέρου τυγχάνοντοσ συνειλεγμένοι τάχιον ἐξῆλθον ἀλύοντεσ, καὶ ταῖσ κολυμβήθραισ ἐπιστάντεσ, αἳ μεγάλαι περὶ τὴν αὐλὴν ἐτύγχανον, ἀνέψυχον τὸ θερμότατον τῆσ μεσημβρίασ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 15 69:1)

Synonyms

  1. a swimming-bath

Related

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

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