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μέλαθρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέλαθρον μέλαθρου

Structure: μελαθρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. the ceiling of a room, the main beam which bears the ceiling, the end of this beam outside the house.
  2. a roof
  3. a house, hall

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μέλαθρον μελάθρω μέλαθρα
Genitive μελάθρου μελάθροιν μελάθρων
Dative μελάθρῳ μελάθροιν μελάθροις
Accusative μέλαθρον μελάθρω μέλαθρα
Vocative μέλαθρον μελάθρω μέλαθρα

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

  • καὶ ἔδωκεν ἐπὶ τὸν τοῖχον τοῦ οἴκου μέλαθρα κυκλόθεν τῷ ναῷ καὶ τῷ δαβὶρ καὶ ἐποίησε πλευρὰσ κυκλόθεν. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 6:9)
  • καὶ μέλαθρα τρία καὶ χώρα ἐπὶ χώραν τρισσῶσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 7:41)
  • ἢ πρὸσ μέλαθρα τοῦδε Καπανέωσ μόλω; (Euripides, Suppliants, episode, lyric 1:12)
  • σὺ τὴν ἐμὴν φῂσ μητέρ’ εἰσ Ὀδυσσέωσ ἥξειν μέλαθρα; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, iambic 3:3)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ τὰν ὀρεστέραν τότ’ ἀμφὶ μέλαθρα παρθένον Διὸσ κόραν ἐμελπόμαν χοροῖσι· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, epode1)

Synonyms

  1. a roof

  2. a house

Related

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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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