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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

  • ἐμοὶ χρῆν συμφοράν, ἐμοὶ χρῆν πημονὰν γενέσθαι, Ἰδαίαν ὅτε πρῶτον ὕλαν Ἀλέξανδροσ εἰλατίναν ἐτάμεθ’, ἅλιον ἐπ’ οἶδμα ναυστολήσων Ἑλένασ ἐπὶ λέκτρα, τὰν καλλίσταν ὁ χρυσοφαὴσ Ἅλιοσ αὐγάζει. (Euripides, Hecuba, choral, strophe1)
  • ὧν οὕνεκ’ οὐ χρή, μῆτερ, οἰκτίρειν σε γῆν, οὐ τἀμὰ λέκτρα· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 2:11)
  • ὦ λέκτρα τἀμὰ δυστυχῆ τε καὶ γάμοι, οἷσ ἦλθον ἐσ μέλαθρον Ἕκτορόσ ποτε, οὐ σφάγιον υἱὸν Δαναί̈δαισ τέξουσ’ ἐμόν, ἀλλ’ ὡσ τύραννον Ἀσιάδοσ πολυσπόρου. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 5:2)
  • ἢ γάμον Ἀθηνᾶ θεῶν τίνοσ θηρωμένη ‐ ἣ παρθενείαν πατρὸσ ἐξῃτήσατο, φεύγουσα λέκτρα; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 2:26)
  • ὅταν δ’, ὑπόντοσ τοῦδ’, ἁμαρτάνῃ πόσισ τἄνδον παρώσασ λέκτρα, μιμεῖσθαι θέλει γυνὴ τὸν ἄνδρα χἅτερον κτᾶσθαι φίλον. (Euripides, episode, anapests 3:2)

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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