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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

  • ἐστι τὸ μετὰ πείσματοσ τεθαρρηκότοσ εἰπεῖν τίσ δ’ ἐστὶ δοῦλοσ τοῦ θανεῖν ἄφροντισὤν; (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 10 2:2)
  • Ναῦσ πέτρῃ προσέκυρσασ ἐμῆσ φιλότητοσ ἁμαρτών, ὦ παῖ, καὶ σαπροῦ πείσματοσ ἀντελάβου. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389807)
  • ἄγε δή, θεὸν εἴ ποτε παρακλητέον ἡμῖν, νῦν ἔστω τοῦτο οὕτω γενόμενον ‐ ἐπί γε ἀπόδειξιν ὡσ εἰσὶν τὴν αὑτῶν σπουδῇ πάσῃ παρακεκλήσθων ‐ ἐχόμενοι δὲ ὥσ τινοσ ἀσφαλοῦσ πείσματοσ ἐπεισβαίνωμεν εἰσ τὸν νῦν λόγον. (Plato, Laws, book 10 53:1)
  • ἐν δὲ λιμὴν ἐύορμοσ, ἵν’ οὐ χρεὼ πείσματόσ ἐστιν, οὔτ’ εὐνὰσ βαλέειν οὔτε πρυμνήσι’ ἀνάψαι, ἀλλ’ ἐπικέλσαντασ μεῖναι χρόνον εἰσ ὅ κε ναυτέων θυμὸσ ἐποτρύνῃ καὶ ἐπιπνεύσωσιν ἀῆται. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 9 9:12)

Synonyms

  1. a ship's cable

Related

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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