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λαύρᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαύρᾱ λαύρᾱς

Structure: λαυρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. alley, lane, passage
  2. bazaar
  3. avenue
  4. block of houses surrounded by streets, ward, town quarter
  5. (in the plural) privy, sewer

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λαύρᾱ λαύρᾱ λαῦραι
Genitive λαύρᾱς λαύραιν λαυρῶν
Dative λαύρᾱͅ λαύραιν λαύραις
Accusative λαύρᾱν λαύρᾱ λαύρᾱς
Vocative λαύρᾱ λαύρᾱ λαῦραι

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

  • κατὰ δὴ ὦν ἑκάστην ὁδὸν ἐν τῇ αἱμασιῇ τῇ παρὰ τὸν ποταμὸν πυλίδεσ ἐπῆσαν, ὅσαι περ αἱ λαῦραι, τοσαῦται ἀριθμόν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 180 5:1)
  • τὰ δ’ ὑπ’ αὐτὴν ὑπόνομοί τε καὶ λαῦραι πραγματείαν οὐκ ἐλάττω τῶν ὑπερῳκοδομημένων ἔχουσαι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 15 404:1)
  • τούτων δὲ ἡ μὲν Σαμίων λαύρα στενωπή τισ ἦν γυναικῶν δημιουργῶν πλήθουσα καὶ τῶν πρὸσ ἀπόλαυσιν καὶ ἀκρασίαν πάντων βρωμάτων ὄντωσ ἐνέπλησε τὴν Ἑλλάδα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 57 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. privy

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