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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

  • Ἡράκλεισ, οὐ φιλοκάλου τινὸσ οὐδὲ περὶ τὰ εὐμορφότατα ἐρωτικοῦ τὸ ἔργον, ἀγροικία δὲ πολλὴ καὶ ἀπειροκαλία καὶ προσέτι γε ἀμουσία, τῶν ἡδίστων αὑτὸν ἀπαξιοῦν καὶ τῶν καλλίστων ἀποξενοῦν καὶ μὴ συνιέναι ὡσ οὐχ ὁ αὐτὸσ περὶ τὰ θεάματα νόμοσ ἰδιώταισ τε καὶ πεπαιδευμένοισ ἀνδράσιν, ἀλλὰ τοῖσ μὲν ἀπόχρη τὸ κοινὸν τοῦτο, ἰδεῖν μόνον καὶ περιβλέψαι καὶ τὼ ὀφθαλμὼ περιενεγκεῖν καὶ πρὸσ τὴν ὀροφὴν ἀνακῦψαι καὶ τὴν χεῖρα ἐπισεῖσαι καὶ καθ’ ἡσυχίαν ἡσθῆναι δέει τοῦ μὴ ἂν δυνηθῆναι ἄξιόν τι τῶν βλεπομένων εἰπεῖν, ὅστισ δὲ μετὰ παιδείασ ὁρᾷ τὰ καλά, οὐκ ἄν, οἶμαι, ἀγαπήσειεν ὄψει μόνῃ καρπωσάμενοσ τὸ τερπνὸν οὐδ’ ἂν ὑπομείναι ἄφωνοσ θεατὴσ τοῦ κάλλουσ γενέσθαι, πειράσεται δὲ ὡσ οἱο͂́ν τε καὶ ἐνδιατρῖψαι; (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 2:1)
  • ὑμεῖσ γὰρ αὐτοὶ οἱ δικασταὶ καὶ μεταξὺ λεγόντων ἡμῶν ἐσ τὴν ὀροφὴν ἀπεβλέπετε καὶ τοὺσ τοίχουσ ἐθαυμάζετε καὶ τὰσ γραφὰσ ἐξητάζετε πρὸσ ἑκάστην ἀποστρεφόμενοι. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 21:3)
  • εἶτ’ ἐπὶ τούτῳ ἄλλοσ οἶκοσ οἴκων ἁπάντων κάλλιστοσ, στῆναί τε καὶ ἐγκαθίζεσθαι προσηνέστατοσ καὶ ἐμβραδῦναι ἀβλαβέστατοσ καὶ ἐγκυλίσασθαι ὠφελιμώτατοσ, Φρυγίου καὶ αὐτὸσ εἰσ ὀροφὴν ἄκραν ἀποστίλβων. (Lucian, (no name) 6:2)
  • οἱ μὲν οὖν ἄλλοι ἐπῄνουν, ὁ Δίφιλοσ δὲ μόνοσ ὕπτιον καταβαλὼν ἑαυτὸν ἐσ τὴν ὀροφὴν ἀνέβλεπεν, ἄχρι δὴ καμοῦσα ἐπαυσάμην. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:4)
  • ἔπειτ’ ἐπαίνεσόν τι τῶν χαλκωμάτων, ὀροφὴν θέασαι, κρεκάδι’ αὐλῆσ θαύμασον· (Aristophanes, Wasps, Episode 1:38)

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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