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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

κατασκευασθέντοσ τοῖσ ἕδεσι τῶν θεῶν, οὓσ Αἰνείασ ἐκ τῆσ Τρωάδοσ ἠνέγκατο καὶ καθίδρυσεν ἐν τῷ Λαουϊνίῳ, ναοῦ χωρίον ἔχοντοσ ἄβατον καὶ τῶν ἱδρυμάτων ἐκ τοῦ Λαουϊνίου μετακομισθέντων εἰσ τοῦτον τὸν μυχόν, ὑπὸ τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν νύκτα κεκλεισμένων τε ὡσ μάλιστα τῶν θυρῶν καὶ οὐδὲν παθόντων οὔτε περιβόλων οὔτε ὀροφῶν διαμείψαντα τὰ βρέτη τὴν στάσιν ἐπὶ τῶν ἀρχαίων εὑρεθῆναι κείμενα βάθρων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 67 2:2)
καταγωγίων δὲ ἀπορία, καὶ πλέον ἐκ τῶν ὀροφῶν τὸ ὕδωρ ἢ ἐκ Διὸσ ἔξω ῥέον· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 14:12)
οὐδὲ μετ’ ἀρσένων ψῆφον ἔθεντ’ ἀτιμώ‐ σαντεσ ἔριν γυναικῶν, Δῖον ἐπιδόμενοι πράκτορά τε σκοπὸν δυσπολέμητον, ὃν οὐ τίσ ἂν δόμοσ ἔχοι ἐπ’ ὀρόφων μιαί‐ νοντα; (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 11)
εἶξον ἀρειοτέροισι, χάρισ Καπετωλίδοσ αὐλῆσ, εἰ καὶ χαλκείων ὀρόφων ἀμαρύγματα πέμπεισ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 656 2:1)
οἱ δὲ ἀπῴμωζον τὴν πόλιν, οἱ δὲ ἐνεπίμπραντο, ὁμοῦ τῶν ὀρόφων καὶ τῶν ἑστιῶν γενομένων. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:11)

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

Sense

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the roof of a house

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ὀροφή

Sense

Declension

Examples

Synonyms

the roof of a house

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