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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

  • καὶ παρῆλθον ἐπὶ πύλην τοῦ Αἴ̈ν καὶ εἰσ κολυμβήθραν τοῦ βασιλέωσ, καὶ οὐκ ἦν τόποσ τῷ κτήνει παρελθεῖν ὑποκάτω μου. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 2:14)
  • καὶ εἶπε Κύριοσ πρὸσ Ἠσαί̈αν. ἔξελθε εἰσ συνάντησιν Ἄχαζ σὺ καὶ ὁ καταλειφθεὶσ Ἰασοὺβ ὁ υἱόσ σου πρὸσ τὴν κολυμβήθραν τῆσ ἄνω ὁδοῦ τοῦ ἀγροῦ τοῦ κναφέως (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 7:3)
  • "οὐδ’ ἂν κολυμβᾶν εἰσ κολυμβήθραν μύρου" ἀρκεῖσθαί τισ ἂν δύναιτο, φησὶν Ἄλεξισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 32 1:7)
  • Διόδωροσ δ’ ὁ Σικελιώτησ ἐν τοῖσ περὶ Βιβλιοθήκησ Ἀκραγαντίνουσ φησὶ κατασκευάσαι Γέλωνι κολυμβήθραν πολυτελῆ τὸ περίμετρον ἔχουσαν σταδίων ζ’, βάθοσ δὲ πηχῶν κ’, εἰσ ἣν ἐπαγομένων ποταμίων καὶ κρηναίων ὑδάτων ἰχθυοτροφεῖον εἶναι καὶ πολλοὺσ παρέχεσθαι ἰχθῦσ εἰσ τὴν τρυφὴν καὶ ἀπόλαυσιν τῷ Γέλωνι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 591)
  • τῇ δεκάτῃ φθίνοντοσ ταὐτὰ ποιήσασ μᾶλλον ἀνεφλέχθη, καὶ τὴν νύκτα βαρέωσ ἔσχε, καὶ τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν ἡμέραν ἐπύρεττε σφόδρα, καὶ μεταρθεὶσ κατέκειτο παρὰ τὴν μεγάλην κολυμβήθραν, ὅτε δὴ τοῖσ ἡγεμόσι διελέχθη περὶ τῶν ἐρήμων ἡγεμονίασ τάξεων, ὅπωσ καταστήσωσι δοκιμάσαντεσ. (Plutarch, Alexander, chapter 76 2:2)

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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