Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • τὸν ἐκ τῶν λατομιῶν εὖ ἐποίησασ ἀφείσ, ἐλαφρὰ δὲ ἡ δέησισ καὶ περὶ τῶν οἰκετῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ περὶ Ἡγησίππου τοῦ Ἀρίστωνοσ· (Plato, Epistles, Letter 2 32:4)
  • ἐχθὲσ ἐπὶ ξενίαν κληθείσ, ὅτε καιρὸσ ὕπνου μοι, τύλῃ ἐπεκλίνθην Γοργόνοσ ἢ Νιόβησ, ἣν οὐδεὶσ ὕφηνεν, ἀπέπρισε δ’, ἢ πελεκήσασ ἐκ τῶν λατομιῶν ἤγαγεν εἰσ τὰ Πρόκλου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 141)
  • ἐκ ποίων ἔταμεσ, Διονύσιε, τὰ ξύλα ταῦτα λατομιῶν; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 2461)
  • ἐκ ποίων ὁ πατήρ σε δρυῶν τέτμηκεν, Ἀρίστων, ἢ ποίων σε μύλου κόψατο λατομιῶν; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 2531)
  • μικρὸν δ’ ἀπὸ τῆσ πόλεωσ τῶν Μασσαλιωτῶν προελθοῦσα ὅσον εἰσ ἑκατὸν σταδίουσ ἐπὶ ἄκραν εὐμεγέθη πλησίον λατομιῶν τινων ἐντεῦθεν ἄρχεται κολποῦσθαι καὶ ποιεῖν τὸν Γαλατικὸν κόλπον πρὸσ τὸ Ἀφροδίσιον τὸ τῆσ Πυρήνησ ἄκρον· (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 1 12:2)

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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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