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λαιμός

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαιμός λαιμοῦ

Structure: λαιμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the throat, gullet

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λαιμός λαιμώ λαιμοί
Genitive λαιμοῦ λαιμοῖν λαιμῶν
Dative λαιμῷ λαιμοῖν λαιμοῖς
Accusative λαιμόν λαιμώ λαιμούς
Vocative λαιμέ λαιμώ λαιμοί

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 γὰρ ὁ λαιμὸσ ἀπαιτεῖ τὰ ἐκ τοῦ ἔθουσ καὶ ἀπομανθάνων αὐτὰ ἀγανακτεῖ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 39:5)
  • καὶ γὰρ αὖ καὶ τούτουσ ἔφασκεν ὀλιγοχρονίου τε καὶ βραχείασ ἡδονῆσ ἔρωτι πολλὰσ πραγματείασ ὑπομένειν ἀπέφαινε γοῦν τεσσάρων δακτύλων αὐτοῖσ ἕνεκα πάντα πονεῖσθαι τὸν πόνον, ἐφ’ ὅσουσ ὁ μήκιστοσ ἀνθρώπου λαιμὸσ ἐστιν οὔτε γὰρ πρὶν ἐμφαγεῖν, ἀπολαύειν τι τῶν ἐωνημένων, οὔτε βρωθέντων ἡδίω γενέσθαι τὴν ἀπὸ τῶν πολυτελεστέρων πλησμονήν λοιπὸν οὖν εἶναι τὴν ἐν τῇ παρόδῳ γιγνομένην ἡδονὴν τοσούτων ὠνεῖσθαι χρημάτων. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 33:2)
  • Ἰδού, τόδ’, εἰ μὲν στέρνον, ὦ νεανία, παίειν προθυμῇ, παῖσον, εἰ δ’ ὑπ’ αὐχένα χρῄζεισ, πάρεστι λαιμὸσ εὐτρεπὴσ ὅδε. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 3:4)
  • τρὶσ μὲν Ὕλαν ἀύσεν, ὅσον βαρὺσ ἤρυγε λαιμόσ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 20)
  • Ἀδριακοῖο κύτουσ λαιμὸσ τὸ πάλαι μελίγηρυσ, ἡνίκ’ ἐγαστροφόρουν Βακχιακὰσ χάριτασ, νῦν κλασθεὶσ κεῖμαι νεοθηλέι καρτερὸν ἑρ́κοσ κλήματι, πρὸσ τρυφερὴν τεινομένῳ καλύβην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2321)

Synonyms

  1. the throat

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

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