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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λέβης λέβητε λέβητες
Genitive λέβητος λεβήτοιν λεβήτων
Dative λέβητι λεβήτοιν λέβησιν*
Accusative λέβητα λέβητε λέβητας
Vocative λέβη λέβητε λέβητες

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

  • Ὦ πικρᾶσ τῆσ τότε ἡμέρασ καὶ οὐ πικρᾶσ, ὅτε ὁ πικρὸσ Ἑλλήνων τύραννοσ πῦρ φλέξασ λέβησιν ὠμοῖσ καὶ ζέουσι θυμοῖσ ἀγαγὼν ἐπὶ τὸν καταπέλτην καὶ πάσασ τὰσ βασάνουσ αὐτοῦ τοὺσ ἑπτὰ παῖδασ τῆσ Ἁβρααμίτιδος (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 18:20)
  • παρέτειναν δὲ καὶ κεραίαν διπλῆν ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἱστοῖσ ἀμφοτέροισ, καὶ ἀπὸ ταύτησ ἐξήρτησαν ἐν λέβησιν ὅσα ἐπιχυθέντα ἢ ἐπιβληθέντα ἐπὶ μέγα τὴν φλόγα ἐξάψειν ἔμελλεν, ἑρ́ματά τε ἐσ τὴν πρύμναν ἐνέθεσαν, τοῦ ἐξᾶραι ἐσ ὕψοσ τὴν πρῶραν πιεζομένησ κατὰ πρύμναν τῆσ νεώσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 19 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a kettle or caldron

  2. a basin

  3. a cymbal

  4. a cinerary urn

Similar forms

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

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