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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

  • περῶσα γὰρ δὴ ποταμίουσ διὰ ῥοὰσ λέκτροισ ἐπλάθην Στρυμόνοσ φυταλμίοισ, ὅτ’ ἤλθομεν γῆσ χρυσόβωλον ἐσ λέπασ Πάγγαιον ὀργάνοισιν ἐξησκημέναι Μοῦσαι μεγίστην εἰσ ἔριν μελῳδίασ κείνῳ σοφιστῇ Θρῃκί, κἀκτυφλώσαμεν Θάμυριν, ὃσ ἡμῶν πόλλ’ ἐδέννασεν τέχνην. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 1:3)
  • μόχθουσ ἕξω κρείσσουσ, ἢ λέκτροισ πλαθεῖσ’ Ἑλλάνων . (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, strophe 26)
  • μακαρία δ’ ἐγὼ βασιλικοῖσ λέκτροισ κατ’ Ἄργοσ ἁ γαμουμένα. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric8)
  • ἐπεὶ σύ, μᾶτερ, ἐπὶ δάκρυσι καὶ γόοισι τὸν θανόντα πατέρα πατρίδα τε φίλαν καταστένουσ’ ἔχεισ, ἐγὼ δ’ ἐπὶ γάμοισ ἐμοῖσ ἀναφλέγω πυρὸσ φῶσ ἐσ αὐγάν, ἐσ αἴγλαν, διδοῦσ’, ὦ Ὑμέναιε, σοί, διδοῦσ’, ὦ Ἑκάτα, φάοσ, παρθένων ἐπὶ λέκτροισ ᾇ νόμοσ ἔχει. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, lyric10)
  • ἀπέπτυσ’ αὐτήν, ἥτισ ἄνδρα τὸν πάροσ καινοῖσι λέκτροισ ἀποβαλοῦσ’ ἄλλον φιλεῖ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 2:18)

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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