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ὅρκος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὅρκος ὅρκου

Structure: ὁρκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o(/rkos was orig. equiv. to e(/rkos, as o(rka/nh to e(rka/nh, from e)/rgw, ei)/rgw, properly, that which restrains from doing a thing.

Sense

  1. the object by which one swears, the witness of an oath, as the Styx was among the gods, or as Zeus was among mortals
  2. an oath

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

  • πολλαὶ δὲ καὶ φιλίαι συνεκόπησαν καὶ ὁρ́κοι ^ συνεχύθησαν ὑπὸ τῆσ κατὰ τὰσ διαβολὰσ πιθανότητοσ. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 1:7)
  • οἱ τοσοῦτοι δὲ ὁρ́κοι οὓσ ὤμοσασ καὶ τὰ δάκρυα ἐν ἀκαρεῖ πάντα οἴχεται, καὶ ἐπιλέλησαι Μυρτίου νῦν, καὶ ταῦτα, ὦ Πάμφιλε, ὁπότε κύω μῆνα ὄγδοον ἤδη. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:2)
  • ἐπεὶ τἆλλα, φιλήματα καὶ δάκρυα καὶ ὁρ́κοι καὶ τὸ πολλάκισ ἥκειν ἀρχομένου ἔρωτοσ σημεῖον καὶ φυομένου ἔτι· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 1:4)
  • καὶ ὁρ́κοι φησίν εἴ που ἄρα ἐγίγνοντο συναλλαγῆσ, ἐν τῷ αὐτίκα πρὸσ τὸ ἄπορον ἑκατέρῳ διδόμενοι ἴσχυον, οὐκ ἐχόντων ἄλλοθεν δύναμιν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 31 2:4)
  • οἱ μὲν γὰρ ὁρ́κοι τῆσ συναλλαγῆσ τὸ σημαινόμενον ἔχουσι τοιοῦτον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 31 2:6)

Synonyms

  1. an oath

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