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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

  • τί δρᾷσ, ὦ Διὸσ παῖ, μελάθρῳ; (Euripides, Heracles, choral, lyric2)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐγὼν αὐτῆμαρ, ὅτ’ ἐξανύσειεν ἀέθλον, τεθναίην, ἢ λαιμὸν ἀναρτήσασα μελάθρῳ, ἢ καὶ πασσαμένη ῥαιστήρια φάρμακα θυμοῦ. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 13:43)
  • γελοῖοσ ἐδόκει τισὶ τῶν συνδειπνούντων ὁ Ἀχιλλεύσ, ἀκρατότερον ἐγχεῖν τὸν Πάτροκλον κελεύων, εἶτ’ αἰτίαν τοιαύτην ἐπιλέγων οἱ γὰρ φίλτατοι ἄνδρεσ ἐμῷ ὑπέασι μελάθρῳ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 1)
  • ἂψ δ’ ἐλθὼν κατ’ ἄρ’ ἕζετ’ ἐπὶ προὔχοντι μελάθρῳ, φωνῇ δὲ βροτέῃ κατερήτυε φώνησέν τε· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 56:1)
  • οἳ γὰρ φίλτατοι ἄνδρεσ ἐμῷ ὑπέασι μελάθρῳ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 9 16:4)

Synonyms

  1. a roof

  2. a house

Related

Similar forms

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

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