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ὀροφή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀροφή

Structure: ὀροφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)re/fw

Sense

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

φθάνει δ’ Ιἠσοῦσ ὁ τοῦ Σαπφία παῖσ, ὃν τῆσ τῶν ναυτῶν καὶ τῶν ἀπόρων στάσεωσ πρῶτον ἔφαμεν ἄρξαι, παραλαβών τινασ Γαλιλαίουσ καὶ τὴν πᾶσαν αὐλὴν ἐμπρήσασ, πολλῶν οἰόμενοσ εὐπορήσειν ἐξ αὐτῆσ χρημάτων, ἐπειδή τινασ οἴκων ὀροφὰσ κεχρυσωμένασ εἶδεν. (Flavius Josephus, 78:2)
ὥσπερ ὁ Λυκοῦργοσ ἀπὸ πρίονοσ καὶ πελέκεωσ κελεύσασ τὰ θυρώματα ταῖσ οἰκίαισ ποιεῖν καὶ τὰσ ὀροφάσ, ἄλλῳ δὲ μὴ χρῆσθαι τὸ παράπαν ἐργαλείῳ, πᾶσαν ἐξέβαλε περιεργίαν καὶ πολυτέλειαν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 87 1:1)
ὥσπερ ὁ Λυκοῦργοσ ἀπὸ πρίονοσ καὶ πελέκεωσ κελεύσασ τὰ θυρώματα ταῖσ οἰκίαισ ποιεῖν καὶ τὰσ ὀροφάσ, ἄλλῳ δὲ μὴ χρῆσθαι τὸ παράπαν ἐργαλείῳ, πᾶσαν ἐξέβαλε περιεργίαν καὶ πολυτέλειαν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 87 2:1)
καθάπερ οἱ περιττοὶ τεχνῖται κλίνασ τινὰσ ἢ θύρασ ἢ ὀροφὰσ οἰκιῶν κατασκευάζοντεσ ἕτεῤ ἄττα μηχανῶνται φαίνεσθαι, λέγω δὲ οἱο͂ν θυρῶν ἐξοχὰσ θηρίων κεφαλαῖσ ἀπεικάσαντεσ καὶ κιόνων ὁμοίωσ· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 24:1)
οἱ μὲν γὰρ τὰσ αὐλίουσ θύρασ ἐξέκοπτον, οἱ δὲ διὰ κλιμάκων ἐπὶ τὰσ ὀροφὰσ προσανέβαινον, ἄλλοι δὲ διηγωνίζοντο πρὸσ τοὺσ ἀπὸ τῶν στεγῶν ἀμυνομένουσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 7 3:1)

Synonyms

the roof of a house
- στέγη (roof, ceiling)

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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ὀροφή

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the roof of a house

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ὀροφή

Sense

Declension

Examples

Synonyms

the roof of a house

Similar forms

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