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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὄστρακον ὀστράκω ό̓στρακα
Genitive ὀστράκου ὀστράκοιν ὀστράκων
Dative ὀστράκῳ ὀστράκοιν ὀστράκοις
Accusative ὄστρακον ὀστράκω ό̓στρακα
Vocative ό̓στρακον ὀστράκω ό̓στρακα

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

  • προσεπίβαλλε καὶ τῶν ὀστράκων παῖε τοῖσ ξύλοισ τὸν ἀλιτήριον ὁρ́α μὴ διαφύγῃ· (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 1:3)
  • μόνον ὁρῶν ὡσ ὁ Λυγκεὺσ οὐδὲ διὰ λίθων καὶ ὀστράκων, ἀλλὰ καὶ διὰ φίλου καὶ οἰκέτου καὶ διὰ συνήθουσ παντὸσ ὡσ ἀνυστόν ἐστι φωρῶν τὰ πραττόμενα καὶ τὰ βουλευόμενα διορύττων καὶ διερευνώμενοσ. (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 3 2:1)
  • οἱ δ’ ἄρχοντεσ πρῶτον μὲν διηρίθμουν τὸ σύμπαν ἐν ταὐτῷ τῶν ὀστράκων πλῆθοσ· (Plutarch, , chapter 7 5:1)
  • γραφομένων οὖν τότε τῶν ὀστράκων λέγεταί τινα τῶν ἀγραμμάτων καὶ παντελῶσ ἀγροίκων ἀναδόντα τῷ Ἀριστείδῃ τὸ ὄστρακον ὡσ ἑνὶ τῶν τυχόντων παρακαλεῖν, ὅπωσ Ἀριστείδην ἐγγράψειε. (Plutarch, , chapter 7 5:4)
  • φύσκαι δὲ καὶ σίζοντεσ ἀλλάντων τόμοι παρὰ τοῖσ ποταμοῖσιν ἐξεκέχυντ’ ἀντ’ ὀστράκων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:145)

Synonyms

  1. earthen vessel

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