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λωτός

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λωτός λωτοῦ

Structure: λωτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the lotus
  2. the Greek lotus, clover or trefoil
  3. the Cyrenean lotus, Lotophagi
  4. the Egyptian lotus, the lily of the Nile
  5. a North-African tree;, a flute

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λωτός λωτώ λωτοί
Genitive λωτοῦ λωτοῖν λωτῶν
Dative λωτῷ λωτοῖν λωτοῖς
Accusative λωτόν λωτώ λωτούς
Vocative λωτέ λωτώ λωτοί

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

  • μηδ’ ἕλη μηδὲ λωτοὺσ μὴ θεοποιίαν λέγοντεσ ἀποστερῶσι μεγάλων θεῶν τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ἀνθρώπουσ, οἷσ Νεῖλοσ μὲν οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲ Βοῦτοσ οὐδὲ Μέμφισ· (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 66 1:1)
  • ἁ μία λωτούσ, ἁ δὲ φέρει παλάμαισ βάρβιτον, ἁ δὲ χέλυν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2202)
  • οὔ κεν Ἀθήνη ἔρριψεν λωτοὺσ τοῖα μελιζομένη, οἱᾶ σὺ ποικιλοτερπέσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 5173)

Synonyms

  1. the lotus

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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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