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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

  • ἐπὶ δὲ πόνῳ καὶ χαρᾷ νύχιον ἐπεὶ κνέφασ παρῆν, Λίβυσ τε λωτὸσ ἐκτύπει Φρύγιά τε μέλεα, παρθένοι δ’ ἀέριον ἀνὰ κρότον ποδῶν βοὰν ἔμελπον εὔφρον’, ἐν δόμοισ δὲ παμφαὲσ σέλασ πυρὸσ μέλαιναν αἴγλαν <ἄκοσ> ἔδωκεν ὕπνῳ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, antistrophe 13)
  • Ὦ ἴτε βάκχαι, ὦ ἴτε βάκχαι, Τμώλου χρυσορόου χλιδᾷ μέλπετε τὸν Διόνυσον βαρυβρόμων ὑπὸ τυμπάνων, εὐιά τὸν εὐιόν ἀγαλλόμεναι θεὸν ἐν Φρυγίαισι βοαῖσ ἐνοπαῖσί τε, λωτὸσ ὅταν εὐκέλαδοσ ἱερὸσ ἱερὰ παίγματα βρέμῃ, σύνοχα φοιτάσιν εἰσ ὄροσ εἰσ ὄροσ· (Euripides, choral, epode5)
  • λωτὸσ δὲ φθόγγον κελάδει κάλλιστον, Μουσᾶν θεράπων· (Euripides, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • ἀλλ’ εἰᾶ, τἀπὶ τοισίδ’ ἐξάρχου κανᾶ, στεφανοῦσθε κρᾶτα καὶ σύ, Μενέλεωσ ἄναξ, ὑμέναιον εὐτρέπιζε καὶ κατὰ στέγασ λωτὸσ βοάσθω καὶ ποδῶν ἔστω κτύποσ· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 1:25)
  • νάβλασ ἐν ἄρθροισ γραμμάτων οὐκ εὐμελήσ, ᾧ λωτὸσ ἐν πλευροῖσιν ἄψυχοσ παγεὶσ ἔμπνουν ἀνίει μοῦσαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 77 1:4)

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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