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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

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 μέλαθρον ἐπ̓ ἀμφοτέρων τῶν στύλων, καὶ ἐπάνωθεν τῶν πλευρῶν ἐπίθεμα τὸ μέλαθρον τῷ πάχει. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 7:9)
  • καὶ μέλαθρα τρία καὶ χώρα ἐπὶ χώραν τρισσῶσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 7:41)
  • ἤδη δ’ ἀγχιδόμοισιν ἐπ’ Ἀτρείδαο μελάθροισ ἵστατο θεσπεσίῃσιν ἀγαλλόμενοσ χαρίτεσσιν. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1117)
  • ἀμπτάμενοσ οὐράνιον ὑψιπετὲσ ἐσ μέλαθρον, Ωἀρίων ἢ Σείριοσ ἔνθα πυρὸσ φλογέασ ἀφίη‐ σιν ὄσσων αὐγάσ, ἢ τὸν ἐσ Αἴδα μελάγχρωτα πορθμὸν ᾄξω τάλασ; (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric13)
  • ὦ λέκτρα τἀμὰ δυστυχῆ τε καὶ γάμοι, οἷσ ἦλθον ἐσ μέλαθρον Ἕκτορόσ ποτε, οὐ σφάγιον υἱὸν Δαναί̈δαισ τέξουσ’ ἐμόν, ἀλλ’ ὡσ τύραννον Ἀσιάδοσ πολυσπόρου. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 5:2)
  • δούλειον ὑπὸ μέλαθρον. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, strophe 111)

Synonyms

  1. a roof

  2. a house

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

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