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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

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

  • ταῦτα δὲ πάντα δάπεδον εἶχεν ἐν ἀβακίσκοισ συγκείμενον ἐκ παντοίων λίθων, ἐν οἷσ ἦν κατεσκευασμένοσ πᾶσ ὁ περὶ τὴν Ἰλιάδα μῦθοσ θαυμασίωσ ταῖσ τε κατασκευαῖσ καὶ ταῖσ ὀροφαῖσ, καὶ θυρώμασι δὲ πάντα ἦν ταῦτα πεπονημένα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 415)
  • οὐκοῦν τόδε μὲν οἶμαι παντί τῳ δῆλον καὶ πολλάκισ λεγόμενον ἴσωσ ὅτι βαφεῖσ μὲν καὶ μυρεψοὺσ σὺν κουρικῇ γυναικῶν τε καὶ ἀνδρῶν, οὐ πολύ τι διαφερούσαισ τὰ νῦν, καὶ ποικιλτικῇ πάσῃ σχεδὸν οὐκ ἐσθῆτοσ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ τριχῶν καὶ χρωτόσ, ἐγχούσῃ καὶ ψιμυθίῳ καὶ πᾶσι φαρμάκοισ μηχανωμένῃ ὡρ́ασ ψευδεῖσ καὶ νόθα εἴδωλα, ἔτι δὲ ἐν οἰκιῶν ὀροφαῖσ καὶ τοίχοισ καὶ ἐδάφει τὰ μὲν χρώμασι, τὰ δὲ λίθοισ, τὰ δὲ χρυσῷ, τὰ δ’ ἐλέφαντι ποικιλλόντων, τὰ δὲ αὐτῶν τοίχων γλυφαῖσ, τὸ μὲν ἄριστον μή παραδέχεσθαι καθόλου τὰσ πόλεισ, τὸ δὲ ἡμῖν ἐν τῷ παρόντι λόγῳ διορίσαι μηδένα ἂν τοιοῦτον γίγνεσθαι τῶν ἡμετέρων πενήτων, οἷσ πρὸσ τοὺσ πλουσίουσ ἡμεῖσ ἀγωνιζόμεθα ὥσπερ χορῷ τὰ νῦν, οὐχ ὑπὲρ εὐδαιμονίασ προκειμένου τοῦ ἀγῶνοσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 141:1)

Synonyms

  1. the roof of a house

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

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