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ὁμήρευμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁμήρευμα ὁμήρευματος

Structure: ὁμηρευματ (Stem)

Etym.: from o(mhreu/w

Sense

  1. a hostage, pledge

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

  • ἡ μὲν γὰρ γενομένη συγγένεια καί τὰ Ιοὐλίασ φίλτρα καί γάμοσ ἐκεῖνοσ εὐθὺσ ἦν ἀπατηλὰ καί ὕποπτα κοινωνίασ ἐπὶ χρείᾳ συνισταμένησ ὁμηρεύματα, φιλίασ δ’ ἀληθινῆσ οὐ μετέσχεν. (Plutarch, Pompey, chapter 70 4:2)
  • ἔγγιον δὲ καὶ νεώτερον τοῦθ’ ἡμεῖσ τῆσ συγγενείασ ὁμήρευμα ἔχομεν πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 1 380:2)

Synonyms

  1. a hostage

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

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