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μέτωπον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέτωπον μέτωπου

Structure: μετωπ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: meta/, w)/y

Sense

  1. the space between the eyes, the brow, forehead
  2. the front or face, the front, line

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 ἐξέτεινε Δαυὶδ τὴν χεῖρα αὐτοῦ εἰσ τὸ κάδιον καὶ ἔλαβεν ἐκεῖθεν λίθον ἕνα καὶ ἐσφενδόνισε καὶ ἐπάταξε τὸν ἀλλόφυλον ἐπὶ τὸ μέτωπον αὐτοῦ, καὶ διέθυ ὁ λίθοσ διά τῆσ περικεφαλαίασ εἰσ τὸ μέτωπον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔπεσεν ἐπί πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 17:28)
  • οὐ μόνον δὲ τοῦτον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸν δανειστὴν Γνίφωνα ἰδὼν στένοντα καὶ μεταγινώσκοντα ὅτι μὴ ἀπέλαυσε τῶν χρημάτων, ἀλλ’ ἄγευστοσ αὐτῶν ἀπέθανε τῷ ἀσώτῳ Ῥοδοχάρει τὴν οὐσίαν ἀπολιπών, ‐ οὗτοσ γὰρ ἄγχιστα ἦν αὐτῷ γένουσ καὶ πρῶτοσ ἐπὶ τὸν κλῆρον ἐκαλεῖτο κατὰ τὸν νόμον ‐ οὐκ εἶχον ὅπωσ καταπαύσω τὸν γέλωτα, καὶ μάλιστα μεμνημένοσ ὡσ ὠχρὸσ ἀεὶ καὶ αὐχμηρὸσ ἦν, φροντίδοσ τὸ μέτωπον ἀνάπλεωσ καὶ μόνοισ τοῖσ δακτύλοισ πλουτῶν, οἷσ τάλαντα καὶ μυριάδασ ἐλογίζετο, κατὰ μικρὸν συλλέγων τὰ μετ’ ὀλίγον ἐκχυθησόμενα πρὸσ τοῦ μακαρίου Ῥοδοχάρουσ. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 17:1)
  • τὰ μὲν ἀμφὶ τὴν κόμην καὶ μέτωπον ὀφρύων τε τὸ εὔγραμμον ἐάσει ἔχειν ὥσπερ ὁ Πραξιτέλησ ἐποίησεν, καὶ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν δὲ τὸ ὑγρὸν ἅμα τῷ φαιδρῷ καὶ κεχαρισμένῳ, καὶ τοῦτο διαφυλάξει κατὰ τὸ Πραξιτέλει δοκοῦν τὰ μῆλα δὲ καὶ ὅσα τῆσ ὄψεωσ ἀντωπὰ παρ’ Ἀλκαμένουσ καὶ τῆσ ἐν κήποισ λήψεται, καὶ προσέτι χειρῶν ἄκρα καὶ καρπῶν τὸ εὔρυθμον καὶ δακτύλων τὸ εὐάγωγον εἰσ λεπτὸν ἀπολῆγον παρὰ τῆσ ἐν κήποισ καὶ ταῦτα. (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 6:2)
  • εἴτε αὖ μηκῦναι τὸ μέτωπον ἐσ ὀκτώ, ἔσται οὐ πάντη ἀβαθὴσ ἡ φάλαγξ. (Arrian, chapter 5 11:2)
  • γινώσκω ὅτι σκληρὸσ εἶ, καὶ νεῦρον σιδηροῦν ὁ τράχηλόσ σου, καὶ τὸ μέτωπόν σου χαλκοῦν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 48:4)

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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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