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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λῦμα λύματε λύματα
Genitive λύματος λυμάτοιν λυμάτων
Dative λύματι λυμάτοιν λύμασιν*
Accusative λῦμα λύματε λύματα
Vocative λύμα λύματε λύματα

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

  • τῷ παντὶ γὰρ κρεῖττον ἐρημίαν καθορᾶν καὶ δεκαπέντε ἀνθρώπουσ εὐπόρουσ ἢ πλῆθοσ ἀνήριθμον ἀνθρώπων ἀθλίων καὶ μαινομένων, ὥσπερ τινὰκόπρον βαθεῖαν ἐν ταὐτῷ νενημένην ἐκ παντοδαπῶν λυμάτων. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 116:2)
  • Ῥηγῖνον δὲ ἡ γυνὴ νυκτὸσ ἐσ ὑπόνομον λυμάτων καθῆκεν, ἐσ ὃν ἡμέρασ οὐχ ὑποστάντων ἐμβῆναι τῶν ὁπλιτῶν διὰ δυσοδμίαν, νυκτὸσ ἄλλησ εἰσ ἀνθρακέα ἐσκεύασε καὶ ὄνον ἄνθρακασ φέροντα ἐλαύνειν ἔδωκεν· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 4, chapter 6 5:4)
  • καίπερ δὴ φυσικῆσ οὔσησ τῆσ τῶν λυμάτων ἐκκρίσεωσ ἀπολούεσθαι μετ’ αὐτὴν καθάπερ μεμιασμένοισ ἔθιμον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 193:3)
  • τῶν γὰρ παρὰ τοῖσ Σύροισ τισ αὐτομόλων φωρᾶται τῶν τῆσ γαστρὸσ λυμάτων χρυσοῦσ ἐκλέγων· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 625:2)

Synonyms

  1. ruin

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

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