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λόχμη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λόχμη

Structure: λοχμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: lo/xos

Sense

  1. a thicket, coppice, copse

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ μὴν δοκῶ σφᾶσ ἐν λόχμαισ ὄρνιθασ ὣσ λέκτρων ἔχεσθαι φιλτάτοισ ἐν ἑρ́κεσιν. (Euripides, episode 1:11)
  • καὶ πηλοῖσ βαθέσι καὶ λόχμαισ ἀφόροισ καὶ ὕλαισ ἐξηγρίωτο· (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 2 6:1)
  • Οὐετίλιοσ μὲν δὴ αὐτὸν διώκων ἦλθεν ἐπὶ τὴν Τριβόλαν, ὁ δ’ Οὐρίατθοσ ἐν λόχμαισ ἐνέδραν ἐπικρύψασ ἔφυγε, μέχρι τὰσ λόχμασ ὑπερελθόντοσ τοῦ Οὐετιλίου αὐτόσ τε ἐπεστρέφετο καὶ οἱ ἐκ τῆσ ἐνέδρασ ἀνεπήδων, καὶ Ῥωμαίουσ ἑκατέρωθεν ἔκτεινόν τε καὶ ἐζώγρουν καὶ ἐσ τὰσ φάραγγασ ἐώθουν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 11 3:2)
  • καὶ Φαμέασ ὁ ἵππαρχοσ ὁ τῶν Λιβύων, νέοσ τε ὢν ἔτι καὶ θρασύτεροσ ἐσ μάχασ, καὶ ἵπποισ χρώμενοσ μικροῖσ καὶ ταχέσι, καὶ ποηφαγοῦσιν ὅτε μηδὲν εἰή, καὶ φέρουσι δίψοσ, εἰ δεήσειε, καὶ λιμόν, ὑποκρυπτόμενοσ ἐν λόχμαισ ἢ φάραγξιν, ὅπῃ τι ἀμελούμενον ἴδοι, ἐφίπτατο ἐξ ἀφανοῦσ ὥσ τισ ἀετόσ, καὶ λυμηνάμενοσ ἀπεπήδα· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 6:4)

Synonyms

  1. a thicket

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

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