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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

  • "εἰσὶ δ’ αὐτῶν καὶ αἱ κεφαλαὶ τῷ σχήματι περιφερεῖσ, ὧν ἡ μὲν ὅλη περιγραφὴ παραπλησία ῥόδοισ ἐπὶ μικρὸν ἀναπεπταμένοισ ἐστίν, περὶ δὲ τὸν προσαγορευόμενον κάλαθον οὐχ ἕλικεσ, καθάπερ ἐπὶ τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν, καὶ φύλλα τραχέα περίκειται, λωτῶν δὲ ποταμίων κάλυκεσ καὶ φοινίκων ἀρτιβλάστων καρπὸσ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3739)
  • ἵμερον αὐλήσαντι πολυτρήτων διὰ λωτῶν εἶπε λιγυφθόγγῳ Φοῖβοσ ἐπὶ Γλαφύρῳ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 2661)

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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