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μετώπιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μετώπιον μετώπιου

Structure: μετωπι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: = me/twpon,

Sense

  1. the forehead

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

  • "τὸ δὲ μετώπιον καὶ Μενδήσιον κάλλιστα ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ σκευάζεται· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:26)
  • "σκευάζεται δὲ τὸ μετώπιον ἐξ ἐλαίου τοῦ ἀπὸ τῶν πικρῶν καρύων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 4:27)
  • τὸν δ’ ἰθὺσ μεμαῶτα μετώπιον ὀξέϊ δουρὶ νύξ’, οὐδὲ στεφάνη δόρυ οἱ σχέθε χαλκοβάρεια, ἀλλὰ δι’ αὐτῆσ ἦλθε καὶ ὀστέου, ἐγκέφαλοσ δὲ ἔνδον ἅπασ πεπάλακτο· (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 9:4)
  • ἑτέρηφι δὲ λάζετο πέτρον μάρμαρον ὀκριόεντα τόν οἱ περὶ χεὶρ ἐκάλυψεν, ἧκε δ’ ἐρεισάμενοσ, οὐδὲ δὴν χάζετο φωτόσ, οὐδ’ ἁλίωσε βέλοσ, βάλε δ’ Ἕκτοροσ ἡνιοχῆα Κεβριόνην νόθον υἱὸν ἀγακλῆοσ Πριάμοιο ἵππων ἡνί’ ἔχοντα μετώπιον ὀξέϊ λᾶϊ. (Homer, Iliad, Book 16 62:6)

Synonyms

  1. the forehead

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

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