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λαῖφος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαῖφος λαῖφεος

Structure: λαιφο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a tattered garment, rags
  2. a piece of cloth or canvas, a sail

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λαῖφος λαίφει λαίφη
Genitive λαίφους λαίφοιν λαιφέων
Dative λαίφει λαίφοιν λαίφεσιν*
Accusative λαῖφος λαίφει λαίφη
Vocative λαῖφος λαίφει λαίφη

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

  • ναύταισ γὰρ ἢν μὲν μέτριοσ ᾖ χειμὼν φέρειν, προθυμίαν ἔχουσι σωθῆναι πόνων, ὁ μὲν παρ’ οἰάχ’, ὁ δ’ ἐπὶ λαίφεσιν βεβώσ, ὁ δ’ ἄντλον εἴργων ναόσ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 3:10)
  • ἦν μοι παλαιὸν δῶρον ἀρχαίου ποτὲ θηρόσ, λέβητι χαλκέῳ κεκρυμμένον, ὃ παῖσ ἔτ’ οὖσα τοῦ δασυστέρνου παρὰ Νέσσου φθίνοντοσ ἐκ φονῶν ἀνειλόμην, ὃσ τὸν βαθύρρουν ποταμὸν Εὐήνον βροτοὺσ μισθοῦ ’πόρευε χερσίν, οὔτε πομπίμοισ κώπαισ ἐρέσσων οὔτε λαίφεσιν νεώσ. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode12)
  • αὐτοῦ δ’ ἰλλομένοισ ἐπὶ λαίφεσιν, ἠδὲ καὶ ἱστῷ κεκλιμένῳ μάλα πάντεσ ἐπισχερὼ ἑδριόωντο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 7:9)
  • ἡ δ’ ἔσσυτο πολλὸν ἐπιπρὸ λαίφεσιν, ἐσ δ’ ἔβαλον μύχατον ῥόον Ἠριδανοῖο· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 10:22)

Synonyms

  1. a tattered garment

  2. a piece of cloth or canvas

Related

Similar forms

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

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