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λιμήν

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λιμήν λιμένος

Structure: λιμην (Stem)

Sense

  1. a harbour, haven, creek, havens of refuge from
  2. a haven, retreat, refuge, a haven of, a harbour of refuge
  3. a place of resort, receptacle, filled

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐν οἷσ καὶ ἡ ἀκτὴ καὶ οἱ λιμένεσ εἰσὶ καὶ τὰ νεώρια, ἃ οἱ πρόγονοι κατασκευάσαντεσ ὑμῖν κατέλιπον. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 15:5)
  • τὸ δ’ ὑμνούμενον ἐκεῖνο τοῦ πλούτου κέρασ ἔχει διὰ χειρόσ, οὐκ ὀπώρασ ἀεὶ θαλλούσησ μεστόν, ἀλλ’ ὅσα φέρει πᾶσα γῆ πᾶσα δὲ θάλαττα καὶ ποταμοὶ καὶ μέταλλα καὶ λιμένεσ, ἄφθονα καὶ ῥύδην ἐπιχεαμένη. (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 4 2:4)
  • πᾶσα γῆ πᾶσα δὲ θάλαττα καὶ ποταμοὶ καὶ μέταλλα καὶ λιμένεσ, ἄφθονα καὶ ῥύδην ἐπιχεαμένη. (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 4 7:1)
  • ὑπάρχει δ’ ὑμῖν χειμαδίῳ μὲν χρῆσθαι τῇ δυνάμει Λήμνῳ καὶ Θάσῳ καὶ Σκιάθῳ καὶ ταῖσ ἐν τούτῳ τῷ τόπῳ νήσοισ, ἐν αἷσ καὶ λιμένεσ καὶ σῖτοσ καὶ ἃ χρὴ στρατεύματι πάνθ’ ὑπάρχει· (Demosthenes, Speeches, 40:2)
  • πᾶσαι δὲ σκοπιαί τοι ἅδον καὶ πρώονεσ ἄκροι ὑψηλῶν ὀρέων ποταμοί θ’ ἅλαδε προρέοντεσ ἀκταί τ’ εἰσ ἅλα κεκλιμέναι λιμένεσ τε θαλάσσησ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, , part 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a harbour

  2. a haven

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

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