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κόμπασμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κόμπασμα κόμπασματος

Structure: κομπασματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. boasts, braggart words

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

  • ἀλλὰ τὴν Αὄρνον γὰρ πέτρην, ἥντινα Ἀλέξανδροσ βίῃ ἐχειρώσατο, ὅτι Ἠρακλέησ οὐ δυνατὸσ ἐγένετο ἐξελεῖν, μακεδονικὸν δοκέει μοι κόμπασμα, κατάπερ ὦν καὶ τὸν Παραπάμοσον Καύκασον ἐκάλεον Μακεδόνεσ, οὐδέν τι προσήκοντα τοῦτον τῷ Καυκάσῳ. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 5 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. boasts

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

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