Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὄστρακον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄστρακον ὀστράκου

Structure: ὀστρακ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. earthen vessel, fragment of such a vessel, potsherd
  2. earthen castanet

Declension

Second 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

  • δεήσει γὰρ αὐτίκα μάλα πρὸσ μικρόν τι λιθίδιον προσπταίσαντα συλλέγειν τὰ ὄστρακα. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 4 1:1)
  • "Δίδυμοσ δέ φησιν εἰωθέναι τινὰσ ἀντὶ τῆσ λύρασ κογχύλια καὶ ὄστρακα συγκρούοντασ ἔρρυθμον ἦχόν τινα ἀποτελεῖν τοῖσ ὀρχουμένοισ, καθάπερ καὶ Ἀριστοφάνην ἐν Βατράχοισ φάναι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:5)
  • "τὸν αὐτὸν δὲ τρόπον γίνεται τοῖσ ὀστρακοδέρμοισ καὶ τὰ μὴ ἔχοντα ὄστρακα, καθάπερ αἵ τε κνίδαι καὶ οἱ σπόγγοι ἐν ταῖσ σήραγξι τῶν πετρῶν ἐστὶ δὲ τῶν κνιδῶν δύο γένη· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 39 1:1)
  • τροφῇ δὲ χρῆται ἔστιν ὅτε καὶ τοῖσ τῶν κογχυλίων σαρκιδίοισ, τὰ ὄστρακα ἐκτὸσ τῶν θαλαμῶν ῥίπτων ὅθεν διαγινώσκουσιν οἱ θηρεύοντεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 101 1:5)
  • ὄστρακα, φλοξά φαοξά τινα ὄντα οὐ μόνον Ἀριστοφάνησ ἐπὶ τῶν χοίρων τὰσ ὁπλὰσ εἴρηκεν, ἀλλὰ καὶ Σημωνίδησ ὁμοίωσ ἐπὶ χοίρου· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 184)

Synonyms

  1. earthen vessel

Related

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

Find this word at Wiktionary

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION