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πεῖσμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεῖσμα πεῖσματος

Structure: πεισματ (Stem)

Etym.: pei/qw

Sense

  1. a ship's cable, a rope, that which holds in obedience.)

Declension

Third 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

  • Ὀδυσσεὺσ δὲ κόψασ τὸ πεῖσμα τῆσ νεὼσ ἀνήχθη, αἱ δὲ λοιπαὶ σὺν τοῖσ πλέουσιν ἀπώλοντο. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 7 13:3)
  • αἶψα δὲ νῆσον καλήν, Ἀνθεμόεσσαν ἐσέδρακον, ἔνθα λίγειαι Σειρῆνεσ σίνοντ’ Ἀχελωίδεσ ἡδείῃσιν θέλγουσαι μολπῇσιν, ὅτισ παρὰ πεῖσμα βάλοιτο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 15:5)
  • δίκτυὰ τ’ ἐν ῥοθίοισ ἁπλούμενα, καὶ καλαμευτὰσ κάμνων, καὶ μογερῶν πεῖσμα σαγηνοβόλων ‐ ἄνθετο δὲ Κλεόνικοσ, ἐπεὶ καὶ πόντιον ἄγραν ἄνυε, καὶ πτῶκασ πολλάκισ ἐξεσόβει. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 167 1:1)
  • αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ σπασάμην ῥῶπάσ τε λύγουσ τε, πεῖσμα δ’, ὅσον τ’ ὄργυιαν, ἐυστρεφὲσ ἀμφοτέρωθεν πλεξάμενοσ συνέδησα πόδασ δεινοῖο πελώρου, βῆν δὲ καταλοφάδεια φέρων ἐπὶ νῆα μέλαιναν ἔγχει ἐρειδόμενοσ, ἐπεὶ οὔ πωσ ἠε͂ν ἐπ’ ὤμου χειρὶ φέρειν ἑτέρῃ· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 10 14:18)
  • τοὶ δὲ καθῖζον ἐπὶ κληῖ̈σιν ἕκαστοι κόσμῳ, πεῖσμα δ’ ἔλυσαν ἀπὸ τρητοῖο λίθοισ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 13 11:4)

Synonyms

  1. a ship's cable

Related

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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