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ὀροφή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀροφή

Structure: ὀροφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)re/fw

Sense

  1. the roof of a house, the ceiling of a room

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀροφή ὀροφᾱ́ ὀροφαί
Genitive ὀροφῆς ὀροφαῖν ὀροφῶν
Dative ὀροφῇ ὀροφαῖν ὀροφαῖς
Accusative ὀροφήν ὀροφᾱ́ ὀροφᾱ́ς
Vocative ὀροφή ὀροφᾱ́ ὀροφαί

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 γὰρ θυρώματα καὶ τοῖχοι καὶ ὀροφαὶ δι’ ἐλέφαντοσ καὶ χρυσοῦ καὶ ἀργύρου λιθοκολλήτου τυγχάνει διαπεποικιλμένα. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 37:15)
  • ὀροφαὶ δ’ αὐταῖσ ἦσαν ἐκ κέδρου φατνώμασιν ἀνεξεσμέναι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 124:2)
  • αἱ δ’ ὀροφαὶ ξύλοισ ἐξήσκηντο γλυφαῖσ πολυτρόποισ σχημάτων ἰδέαισ, καὶ τὸ τῆσ μέσησ βάθοσ ἐπὶ μεῖζον ἠγείρετο περιδεδομημένου τοῖσ ἐπιστυλίοισ προμετωπιδίου τοίχου κίονασ ἔχοντοσ ἐνδεδομημένουσ καὶ ξεστοῦ παντὸσ ὄντοσ, ὡσ ἄπιστα τοῖσ οὐκ εἰδόσιν καὶ σὺν ἐκπλήξει θεατὰ τοῖσ ἐντυγχάνουσιν εἶναι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 15 492:1)

Synonyms

  1. the roof of a house

Similar forms

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

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