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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

  • ἐν τῷδε λαιμοὺσ τρεῖσ τριῶν μήλων τεμὼν ἔγγραψον ὁρ́κουσ τρίποδοσ ἐν κοίλῳ κύτει, κἄπειτα σῴζειν θεῷ δὸσ ᾧ Δελφῶν μέλει, μνημεῖά θ’ ὁρ́κων μαρτύρημά θ’ Ἑλλάδι. (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:3)
  • ἐνδικώτατ’, εἴ γε λαιμοὺσ εἶχε τριπτύχουσ θανεῖν. (Euripides, episode, trochees9)
  • ἔνθα καὶ Πείσανδροσ ἦλθε δεόμενοσ ψυχὴν ἰδεῖν ἣ ζῶντ’ ἐκεῖνον προὔλιπε, σφάγι’ ἔχων κάμηλον ἀμνόν τιν’, ἧσ λαιμοὺσ τεμὼν ὥσπερ <ποθ’> οὑδυσσεὺσ ἀπῆλθε, κᾆτ’ ἀνῆλθ’ αὐτῷ κάτωθεν πρὸσ τὸ λαῖτμα τῆσ καμήλου Χαιρεφῶν ἡ νυκτερίσ. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 12)
  • ἴσχετε λαιμούσ, καὶ τότε πιστεύσω Μάρτυσιν ἦρα φέρειν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 8, chapter 1723)

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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