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λῦμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῦμα λῦματος

Structure: λυματ (Stem)

Etym.: lou/w

Sense

  1. the water used in washing, washings, off-scourings, filth
  2. moral filth, defilement
  3. ruin, bane

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

  • ἁ μὲν Ἀθάνα τὤργαν’ ἔρριψέν ̔ ἱερᾶσ ἀπὸ χειρὸσ εἶπέ τ’ ἔρρετ’ αἴσχεα, σώματι λύμα,1 οὔ με τᾷ δ’ ἐγὼ κακότατι δίδωμι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 73)
  • ὦ δύσμορ’, οὐδὲ τῷ χρόνῳ φύσασ φανεῖ φρένασ ποτ’ ἀλλὰ λῦμα τῷ γήρᾳ τρέφει; (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode 2:3)
  • πίπτων δ’ οὐκ οἶδεν τόδ’ ὑπ’ ἄφρονι λύμᾳ· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, antistrophe 31)

Synonyms

  1. ruin

Related

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

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