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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

  • πάρεστι δὲ πάσαισ πύλαισ τὴν ἡδονὴν καταδέχεσθαι, τοῦτο μὲν δι’ ὀφθαλμῶν, τοῦτο δὲ δι’ ὤτων τε καὶ ῥινῶν, τοῦτο δὲ καὶ διὰ λαιμοῦ καὶ δι’ ἀφροδισίων ὑφ’ ἧσ δὴ ῥεούσησ ἀενάῳ τε καὶ θολερῷ ῥεύματι πᾶσαι μὲν ἀνευρύνονται ὁδοί· (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 16:2)
  • "σῶμα τοιοῦτόν τῇ πόλει γένοιτο χρήσιμον, οὗ τὸ μεταξὺ λαιμοῦ καὶ βουβώνων πᾶν ὑπὸ τῆσ γαστρὸσ κατέχεται; (Plutarch, Marcus Cato, chapter 9 5:1)
  • ὅμωσ δὲ τοῦτον καὶ ἀποθανόντα ἐποίησεν οὐκ εἰκῇ πληγέντα διὰ τοῦ λαιμοῦ, οὐχ ὅπου ἔτυχεν, ὥσπερ ἀμέλει τὸν Πάνδαρον διὰ τῆσ γλώττησ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 33:2)
  • ἔπειτα καθεῖναι τὸν δάκτυλον οὑτωσὶ μέχρι τοῦ λαιμοῦ, καί τι ἐγχέαι, κατὰ δή τινα ἐπιχώριον νόμον, ὀνομάσαι δὲ αὐτὸ ὀξυσιτίαν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 3:15)

Synonyms

  1. the throat

Related

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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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