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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

  • ἐν πέπλοισι μελαγκέρῳ λαβοῦσα μηχανήματι τύπτει· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 53)
  • πολὺ γὰρ ὑμῖν ὑπερεπήδησε τῷ μηχανήματι τοὺσ σύμπαντασ, ὦ φίλε, ὃ λόγῳ μὲν Ἡσίοδοσ ἐμαντεύετο πάλαι, τῷ δὲ ἔργῳ ἐκεῖνοσ ἀπετέλεσεν, ὡσ ὑμεῖσ φατε. (Plato, Laws, book 3 10:2)
  • καὶ μάχῃ τε ἐπεξελθόντασ τοὺσ Μεγαλοπολίτασ ἐνίκησαν καὶ μηχάνημα ἰσχυρὸν προσάγοντεσ τῷ τείχει τὸν πύργον τὸν ταύτῃ δι’ αὐτοῦ σείουσι καὶ ἐσ τὴν ὑστεραίαν καταρρίψειν τῷ μηχανήματι ἤλπιζον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 27 19:2)

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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