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λέκτρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λέκτρον λέκτρου

Structure: λεκτρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: le/gw

Sense

  1. a couch, bed, to bed
  2. the marriage-bed

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λέκτρον λέκτρω λέκτρα
Genitive λέκτρου λέκτροιν λέκτρων
Dative λέκτρῳ λέκτροιν λέκτροις
Accusative λέκτρον λέκτρω λέκτρα
Vocative λέκτρον λέκτρω λέκτρα

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

  • ἦλθεσ ἐσ νόθον τι λέκτρον; (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees 1:3)
  • οὐ τῶν γάμων ἕκατι ‐ μυρίαι κόραι θηρῶσι λέκτρον τοὐμόν ‐ εἴρηται τόδε· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 2:6)
  • νῦν δ’ ἐγὼ μὲν ἡ τὸ σὸν σῴζουσα λέκτρον παιδὸσ ἐστερήσομαι, ἡ δ’ ἐξαμαρτοῦσ’, ὑπότροφον νεάνιδα Σπάρτῃ κομίζουσ’, εὐτυχὴσ γενήσεται. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode 2:15)
  • ἀρχὰσ τῆσδε γῆσ ἔδωκέ μοι Ἐτεοκλέησ παῖσ σόσ, γάμων φερνὰσ διδοὺσ Αἵμονι κόρησ τε λέκτρον Ἀντιγόνησ σέθεν. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 1:5)
  • σὺ δ’ ἐκλιποῦσα τριπτύχουσ θρήνουσ νεκρῶν κόμιζε σαυτήν, Ἀντιγόνη, δόμων ἔσω καὶ παρθενεύου τὴν ἰοῦσαν ἡμέραν μένουσ’, ἐν ᾗ σε λέκτρον Αἵμονοσ μένει. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, iambic 3:6)

Synonyms

  1. a couch

  2. the marriage-bed

Related

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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