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κυματωγή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κυματωγή

Structure: κυματωγ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a)/gnumi

Sense

  1. a place where the waves break, the beach

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

  • γὰρ δὴ συμβαίνει μερίζεσθαι τὸ Παμφύλιον ἀπὸ τῆσ Λυκιακῆσ θαλάττησ, καὶ ὁ κλύδων ἅτε ἀπὸ πολλῶν ῥευμάτων περὶ τῷ ἀκρωτηρίῳ σχιζόμενοσ ‐ ἀπόξυροι δέ εἰσι πέτραι καὶ ὀξεῖαι παραθηγόμεναι τῷ κλύσματι ‐ καὶ φοβερωτάτην ποιεῖ τὴν κυματωγὴν καὶ τὸν ἦχον μέγαν, καὶ τὸ κῦμα πολλάκισ αὐτῷ ἰσομέγεθεσ τῷ σκοπέλῳ. (Lucian, 16:1)
  • μὴ μέντοι ἐσ βάθοσ, ὦγαθέ, ἀλλ’ ὅσον ἐσ βουβῶνασ ἐπεμβὰσ ὀλίγον πρὸ τῆσ κυματωγῆσ, ἐμοῦ ὁρῶντοσ μόνου· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 55:6)
  • ἔφη γὰρ ἄνθρωπόν τινα ἐπὶ τῇ ἠϊόνι καθεζόμενον ἐπὶ τὴν κυματωγὴν ἀριθμεῖν τὰ κύματα, σφαλέντα δὲ καὶ ἄχθεσθαι καὶ ἀνιᾶσθαι, ἄχρι δὴ τὴν κερδὼ παραστᾶσαν εἰπεῖν αὐτῷ, Τί, ὦ γενναῖε, ἀνιᾷ τῶν παρελθόντων ἕνεκα, δέον τὰ ἐντεῦθεν ἀρξάμενον ἀριθμεῖν ἀμελήσαντα ἐκείνων; (Lucian, 175:1)
  • ἐσ τοὺσ ἐπεὰν ἀπίκωνται καὶ ἐξέλωνται τὰ φορτία, θέντεσ αὐτὰ ἐπεξῆσ παρὰ τὴν κυματωγήν, ἐσβάντεσ ἐσ τὰ πλοῖα τύφειν καπνόν. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 196 1:3)
  • ἰοῦσι δέ σφι φήμη τε ἐσέπτατο ἐσ τὸ στρατόπεδον πᾶν καὶ κηρυκήιον ἐφάνη ἐπὶ τῆσ κυματωγῆσ κείμενον· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 100 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a place where the waves break

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

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