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νῶτον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νῶτον νῶτου

Structure: νωτ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: pl. always nw=ta, ta/

Sense

  1. the back, the back, behind, rear
  2. any wide surface, plains
  3. the back or ridge

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 λαβόντεσ Σὴμ καὶ Ἰάφεθ τὸ ἱμάτιον ἐπέθεντο ἐπὶ τὰ δύο νῶτα αὐτῶν καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν ὀπισθοφανῶσ καὶ συνεκάλυψαν τὴν γύμνωσιν τοῦ πατρὸσ αὐτῶν, καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν ὀπισθοφανῶσ, καὶ τὴν γύμνωσιν τοῦ πατρὸσ αὐτῶν οὐκ εἶδον. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 9:23)
  • τῷ ξύλῳ εἶπαν, ὅτι πατήρ μου εἶ σύ, καὶ τῷ λίθῳ. σὺ ἐγέννησάσ με, καὶ ἔστρεψαν ἐπ’ ἐμὲ νῶτα καὶ οὐ πρόσωπα αὐτῶν. καὶ ἐν τῷ καιρῷ τῶν κακῶν αὐτῶν ἐροῦσιν. ἀνάστα καὶ σῶσον ἡμᾶσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 2:26)
  • ἆρά μοι κράτιστον, ἐθελοκακήσαντα καὶ τὰ νῶτα ἐπιστρέψαντα καὶ ἀδικεῖν οὐκ ἀρνούμενον ἐπὶ τὴν κοινὴν ἐκείνην ἀπολογίαν καταφυγεῖν, ‐ λέγω δὲ τὴν Τύχην καὶ Μοῖραν καὶ Εἱμαρμένην ‐ καὶ παραιτεῖσθαι συγγνώμην ἔχειν μοι τοὺσ ἐπιτιμῶντασ εἰδότασ ὡσ οὐδενὸσ ἡμεῖσ κύριοι, ἀλλ̓ ὑπό τινοσ κρείττονοσ, μᾶλλον δὲ μιᾶσ τῶν προειρημένων ἀγόμεθα οὐχ ἑκόντεσ, ἀλλ̓ ἀναίτιοι παντάπασιν ἄντεσ ὧν λέγομεν ἢ ποιοῦμεν; (Lucian, Apologia 19:3)
  • ἄρτι μὲν Ἰδαίων ὀρέων ἠλλάξατο πόντον καὶ λεχέων ἐπίκουρον ἐφεσπομένην Ἀφροδίτην πολλάκισ ἀκταίοισιν ἱλασσάμενοσ θυέεσσιν ἔπλεεν Ἑλλήσποντον ἐπ’ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσησ, τῷ δὲ πολυτλήτων σημήια φαίνετο μόχθων. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1106)
  • ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοὶ θῆρεσ ἀριζήλοιο Διὸσ τρομέουσι γενέθλην ἤριπεσ ἐξ ὀχέων χθαμαλῆσ ἐπὶ νῶτα κονίησ σὸν δέμασ οἰοπόλοισιν ἐνὶ δρυμοῖσι λιποῦσα; (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1178)

Synonyms

  1. the back or ridge

Related

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

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