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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

  • ἀντὶ μὲν ἠνορέησ ἐρατὴν παράκοιτιν ὀπάσσω, ἀντὶ δὲ κοιρανίησ Ἑλένησ ἐπιβήσεο λέκτρων· (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 190)
  • οὔκ, ἀλλὰ λέκτρων σκότια νυμφευτήρια. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric13)
  • οὐ γὰρ μέγ’ αὐτῇ βασιλικῶν λέκτρων τυχεῖν; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric17)
  • καὶ μὴν δοκῶ σφᾶσ ἐν λόχμαισ ὄρνιθασ ὣσ λέκτρων ἔχεσθαι φιλτάτοισ ἐν ἑρ́κεσιν. (Euripides, episode 1:11)
  • ἀνυμέναιοσ, <ὦ> σύγγον’, Ἀχιλλέωσ ἐσ κλισίαν λέκτρων δολίαν ὅτ’ ἀγόμαν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric15)

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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