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λάρναξ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λάρναξ λάρνακος

Structure: λαρνακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a coffer, box, chest
  2. a cinerary urn or coffin
  3. an ark

Declension

Third 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

  • αἱ δὲ λάρνακεσ πλήρεισ ὁπλιτῶν ὑπῆρχον ἁρ́πασ μεγάλασ ἐχόντων, αἷσ ἔμελλον ἐπισπώμενοι τοὺσ ἀνθεστῶτασ τῶν λῃστῶν κτείνειν καταφερομένουσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 14 537:1)
  • ὡσ δὲ καθιμήθησαν αἱ λάρνακεσ, ἐτόλμα δ’ οὐδεὶσ προσελθεῖν τοῖσ ἐπὶ τῶν στομίων, ἀλλ’ ὑπὸ δέουσ ἠρέμουν, μάχαιράν τισ περιζωσάμενοσ τῶν ὁπλοφόρων καὶ ταῖν χεροῖν ἀμφοτέραιν δραξάμενοσ ἁλύσεωσ, ἀφ’ ἧσ ἤρτητο ἡ λάρναξ, κατῄει ἐπὶ τὰ στόμια δυσχεράνασ τὴν τριβὴν τῶν ἐπεξιέναι μὴ τολμώντων. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 14 538:1)

Synonyms

  1. a coffer

  2. a cinerary urn or coffin

Related

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

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