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μηχάνημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μηχάνημα μηχάνηματος

Structure: μηχανηματ (Stem)

Etym.: = mhxanh/,

Sense

  1. an engine
  2. a subtle contrivance, cunning work

Declension

Third 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 ταύταισ ἐποίησε μηχανήματα περιθεὶσ στύλουσ μεγάλουσ καὶ ἐποίησεν ἐπὶ τοῖσ στύλοισ πανοπλίασ εἰσ ὄνομα αἰώνιον καὶ παρὰ ταῖσ πανοπλίαισ πλοῖα ἐπιγεγλυμμένα εἰσ τὸ θεωρεῖσθαι ὑπὸ πάντων τῶν πλεόντων τὴν θάλασσαν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 13:29)
  • μηχανήματα δ’ αὐτοῖσ κατὰ τοῦ ἀκούοντοσ ἥ τε ἀπάτη καὶ τὸ ψεῦδοσ καὶ ἡ ἐπιορκία καὶ προσλιπάρησισ καὶ ἀναισχυντία καὶ ἄλλα μυρία ῥᾳδιουργήματα. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 20:1)
  • ἐπὶ τούτου Φίλιπποσ τὸ μὲν πρῶτον ἀναπλεύσασ Περίνθῳ προσέβαλεν, ἀποτυχὼν δ’ ἐντεῦθεν Βυζάντιον ἐπολιόρκει καὶ μηχανήματα προσῆγεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ad Ammaeum, chapter 11 2:2)
  • μὴ σὺ νουθέτει τά θ’ Ἥρασ κἀμὰ μηχανήματα. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, trochees1)
  • ὤφθη δὲ πῶσ τὰ κρυπτὰ μηχανήματα; (Euripides, Ion, episode11)

Synonyms

  1. an engine

Related

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

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