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λατομία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λατομία

Structure: λατομι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a quarry, a site for mining stone.

Declension

First 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

  • διὸ καὶ κατά τινασ τόπουσ τῆσ Ἀραβίασ ὀρυττομένησ τῆσ γῆσ εὑρίσκονται φλέβεσ εὐώδεισ, ὧν μεταλλευομένων ἐξαίσιοι τὸ μέγεθοσ λατομίαι γίνονται· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 49 5:1)
  • εἰσὶ δὲ λατομίαι λίθου πολυτελοῦσ τοῦ μὲν Ταιναρίου ἐν Ταινάρῳ παλαιαί, νεωστὶ δὲ καὶ ἐν τῷ Ταϋγέτῳ μέταλλον ἀνέῳξάν τινεσ εὐμέγεθεσ, χορηγὸν ἔχοντεσ τὴν τῶν Ῥωμαίων πολυτέλειαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 8, chapter 5 14:7)
  • εἶτα νῆσοι ἓξ Λατομίαι καλούμεναι· (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 16:2)
  • ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ τῷ κόλπῳ ἐν ᾧπερ καὶ ἡ Καρχηδών, Τύνισ ἐστὶ πόλισ καὶ θερμὰ καὶ λατομίαι τινέσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 32:2)

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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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