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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

  • καὶ ὅτι εἶδεσ τοὺσ πόδασ καὶ τοὺσ δακτύλουσ μέροσ μέν τι ὀστράκινον μέροσ δέ τι σιδηροῦν, βασιλεία διῃρημένη ἔσται, καὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ ρίζησ τῆσ σιδηρᾶσ ἔσται ἐν αὐτῇ, ὃν τρόπον εἶδεσ τὸν σίδηρον ἀναμεμειγμένον τῷ ὀστράκῳ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 2:41)
  • ὅτι εἶδεσ τὸν σίδηρον ἀναμεμειγμένον τῷ ὀστράκῳ, συμμειγεῖσ ἔσονται ἐν σπέρματι ἀνθρώπων καὶ οὐκ ἔσονται προσκολλώμενοι οὗτοσ μετὰ τούτου, καθὼσ ὁ σίδηροσ οὐκ ἀναμείγνυται μετὰ τοῦ ὀστράκου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 2:43)
  • ἤδη γάρ σε τουτῳὶ τῷ ὀστράκῳ ἀποσφάξω παμμίαρον ὄντα. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 52:8)
  • ὅτε δὴ πρῶτον μὲν αὐτὸν γενόμενον χειμῶνοσ ὄντοσ ἐξέθεσαν ἐν ὀστράκῳ, ἵνα μὴ ’κτραφεὶσ γένοιτο τοῦ πατρὸσ φονεύσ· (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene 1:30)
  • τῷ δ’ ὀστράκῳ πᾶσ ὁ διὰ δόξαν ἢ γένοσ ἢ λόγου δύναμιν ὑπὲρ τοὺσ πολλοὺσ νομιζόμενοσ ὑπέπιπτεν· (Plutarch, , chapter 1 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. earthen vessel

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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