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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

  • πρῶτον μέν γ’ ἔχω τὰσ μασχάλασ λόχμησ δασυτέρασ, καθάπερ ἦν ξυγκείμενον· (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Prologue 2:12)
  • ἐξαμαυροῦται γὰρ καὶ ταῦτα καὶ πολλὰ τῶν ἄλλων ὑπὸ τῆσ κακίασ, ὥσπερ λόχμησ ἡμέροισ σπέρμασι παραβλαστανούσησ. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 51)
  • ἐξαμαυροῦται γὰρ καὶ ταῦτα καὶ πολλὰ τῶν ἄλλων ὑπὸ τῆσ κακίασ, ὥσπερ λόχμησ ἡμέροισ σπέρμασι παραβλαστανούσησ. (Plutarch, De amore prolis, section 51)
  • ὥσπερ οὖν ὁ γεωργίασ ἄπειροσ οὐκ ἂν ἀσπάσαιτο χώραν ἰδὼν λόχμησ ἔμπλεων δασείασ καὶ φυτῶν ἀγρίων καὶ θηρία πολλὰ καὶ ῥεύματα καὶ πολὺν ἔχουσαν πηλόν, ἀλλὰ τῷ μεμαθηκότι διαισθάνεσθαι καὶ κρίνειν, αὐτὰ ταῦτα τὴν ἰσχὺν καὶ,πάνθ’ ὅσ’ ὑποδείκνυσι καὶ τὴν μαλακότητα τῆσ γῆσ· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 617)
  • ἐπανελθὼν δὲ εἰσ Φολόην Ἡρακλῆσ καὶ Φόλον τελευτήσαντα θεασάμενοσ, θάψασ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὴν τοῦ κάπρου θήραν παραγίνεται, καὶ διώξασ αὐτὸν ἔκ τινοσ λόχμησ μετὰ κραυγῆσ, εἰσ χιόνα πολλὴν παρειμένον εἰσωθήσασ ἐμβροχίσασ τε ἐκόμισεν εἰσ Μυκήνασ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 2, chapter 5 4:17)

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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