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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

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

  • Κρέων δὲ Μεγάρασ τῆσδε γίγνεται πατήρ, ἣν πάντεσ ὑμεναίοισι Καδμεῖοί ποτε λωτῷ συνηλάλαξαν, ἡνίκ’ εἰσ ἐμοὺσ δόμουσ ὁ κλεινὸσ Ἡρακλῆσ νιν ἤγετο. (Euripides, Heracles, episode 1:4)
  • ἐστὶ δὲ τὸ ἄνθοσ ὅμοιον λωτῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 27 2:6)
  • πολιῷ δ’ ἐπὶ πολλάκι λωτῷ κημωθεὶσ κώμουσ εἶχε σὺν Ἑξαμύῃ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 71 5:1)
  • Μίμνερμοσ δέ, τὸν ἡδὺν ὃσ εὑρ́ετο πολλὸν ἀνατλὰσ ἦχον καὶ μαλακοῦ πνεῦμ’ ἀπὸ πενταμέτρου, καίετο μὲν Ναννοῦσ, πολιῷ δ’ ἐπὶ πολλάκι λωτῷ κημωθεὶσ κώμουσ εἶχε σὺν Ἐξαμύῃ, ἤχθεε δ’ Ἑρμόβιον τὸν ἀεὶ βαρὺν ἠδὲ Φερεκλῆν ἐχθρόν, μισήσασ οἷ’ ἀνέπεμψεν ἔπη. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , prop. i. 9. 916)
  • ἡ κροτάλοισ ὀρχηστρὶσ Ἀρίστιον, ἡ περὶ πεύκασ τῇ Κυβέλῃ πλοκάμουσ ῥῖψαι ἐπισταμένη, ἡ λωτῷ κερόεντι φορουμένη, ἡ τρὶσ ἐφεξῆσ εἰδυῖ’ ἀκρήτου χειλοποτεῖν κύλικασ, ἐνθάδ’ ὑπὸ πτελέαισ ἀναπαύεται, οὐκέτ’ ἔρωτι, οὐκέτ’ παννυχίδων τερπομένη καμάτοισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2231)
  • πρᾶταί τοι στέφανον λωτῶ χαμαὶ αὐξομένοιο πλέξασαι σκιερὰν καταθήσομεν ἐσ πλατάνιστον, πρᾶται δ’ ἀργυρέασ ἐξ ὄλπιδοσ ὑγρὸν ἄλειφαρ λαζύμεναι σταξεῦμεσ ὑπὸ σκιερὰν πλατάνιστον· (Theocritus, Idylls, 20)

Synonyms

  1. the lotus

Related

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

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