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λέβης

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λέβης λέβητος

Structure: λεβητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: lei/bw

Sense

  1. a kettle or caldron
  2. a basin, a pan, a bath
  3. a cymbal
  4. a cinerary urn, a casket

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

  • καὶ πρὶν θυμιαθῆναι τὸ στέαρ, ἤρχετο τὸ παιδάριον τοῦ ἱερέωσ καὶ ἔλεγε τῷ ἀνδρὶ τῷ θύοντι. δὸσ κρέασ ὀπτῆσαι τῷ ἱερεῖ, καὶ οὐ μὴ λάβω παρὰ σοῦ κρέασ ἑφθὸν ἐκ τοῦ λέβητοσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 2:15)
  • εἰσὶ δ’ οἳ καὶ μόνον ψαύσαντεσ ἔκτοσθεν τοῦ λέβητοσ ἄκρῳ τῷ δακτύλῳ καὶ ἐπιχρισάμενοι τῆσ ἀσβόλου ἱκανῶσ οἰόνται καὶ οὗτοι μεταβεβάφθαι. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 8:14)
  • ἦν δὲ παραπλήσιοσ μὲν Δελφικῷ τρίποδι καὶ τοὔνομ’ ἐντεῦθεν ἔσχεν, τὴν δὲ χρῆσιν τριπλῆσ κιθάρασ παρείχετο, τῶν γὰρ ποδῶν ἑστώτων ἐπί τινοσ βάσεωσ εὐστρόφου, καθάπερ αἱ τῶν περιάκτων δίφρων κατασκευάζονται, θέσεισ, τὰσ μέσασ τρεῖσ χώρασ τὰσ ἀπὸ ποδὸσ ἐπὶ πόδα διεστώσασ ἐνέτεινε χορδαῖσ, ὑπερθεὶσ ἑκάστῃ πῆχυν καὶ κάτω προσαρμόσασ χορδοτόνια, καὶ τὸν ἐπάνω κόσμον κοινὸν τοῦ λέβητοσ καὶ τῶν παρηρτημένων ἠχείων ἀποδούσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:21)
  • ἐὰν δὲ τοὐργαστήριον ποιῆτε περιβόητον, κατασκεδῶ, νὴ τὴν φίλην Δήμητρα, τὴν μεγίστην ἀρύταιναν ὑμῶν ἐκ μέσου βάψασα τοῦ λέβητοσ ζέοντοσ ὕδατοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 96 1:6)
  • οἱο͂́ν φασιν Ἀπολλόδωρόν ποτε κατὰ τοὺσ ὕπνουσ ὁρᾶν ἐκδερόμενον ἑαυτὸν ὑπὸ Σκυθῶν εἶτα καθεψόμενον, τὴν δὲ καρδίαν ἐκ τοῦ λέβητοσ ὑποφθεγγομένην καὶ λέγουσαν "ἐγώ σοι τούτων αἰτία· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 10 10:1)
  • Θεόλυτοσ δ’ ἐν δευτέρῳ ̔̀ Ὥρων ἐπὶ λέβητόσ φησιν αὐτὸν διαπλεῦσαι, τοῦτο πρώτου εἰπόντοσ τοῦ τὴν Τιτανομαχίαν ποιήσαντοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 39 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. a kettle or caldron

  2. a basin

  3. a cymbal

  4. a cinerary urn

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

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