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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

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

  • Κούρην δ’ ἐξ ἀχέων ἀδινὸσ κατελώφεεν ὕπνοσ λέκτρῳ ἀνακλινθεῖσαν. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 11:4)
  • ἡ γραῦσ ἡ φθονερὴ παρεκέκλιτο γείτονι κούρῃ δόχμιον ἐν λέκτρῳ νῶτον ἐρεισαμένη, προβλὴσ ὥσ τισ ἔπαλξισ ἀνέμβατοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2941)
  • ὠίξεν δὲ θύρασ θαλάμου πύκα ποιητοῖο, ἕζετο δ’ ἐν λέκτρῳ, μαλακὸν δ’ ἔκδυνε χιτῶνα· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 42:7)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐπὴν νὺξ ἔλθῃ, ἕλῃσί τε κοῖτοσ ἅπαντασ, κεῖμαι ἐνὶ λέκτρῳ, πυκιναὶ δέ μοι ἀμφ’ ἀδινὸν κῆρ ὀξεῖαι μελεδῶνεσ ὀδυρομένην ἐρέθουσιν. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 55:6)

Synonyms

  1. a couch

  2. the marriage-bed

Related

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

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