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πέπλος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πέπλος πέπλου

Structure: πεπλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. any woven cloth used for a covering, sheet, carpet, curtain, veil, funeral-urn, seat
  2. upper garment or mantle in one piece, worn by women
  3. peritoneum
  4. wartweed

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

  • κἀπεὶ τόδ’ εἰσήκουσε δεσποτῶν ἔποσ, λαβοῦσα πέπλουσ ἐξ ἄκρασ ἐπωμίδοσ ἔρρηξε λαγόνασ ἐσ μέσασ παρ’ ὀμφαλόν, μαστούσ τ’ ἔδειξε στέρνα θ’ ὡσ ἀγάλματοσ κάλλιστα, καὶ καθεῖσα πρὸσ γαῖαν γόνυ ἔλεξε πάντων τλημονέστατον λόγον· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 3:3)
  • πολλαὶ δὲ χεῖρεσ, αἳ μὲν ἐξ ἀριστερᾶσ, αἳ δ’ ἔνθεν, ὡσ δὴ παρὰ φίλῳ, Τρώων κόραι θάκουσ ἔχουσαι, κερκίδ’ Ἠδωνῆσ χερὸσ ᾔνουν, ὑπ’ αὐγὰσ τούσδε λεύσσουσαι πέπλουσ· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric 3:4)
  • βρέφη δὲ φίλι‐ α περὶ πέπλουσ ἔβαλλε μα‐ τρὶ χεῖρασ ἐπτοημένασ· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, epode3)
  • ὦ πολλὰ κόμπουσ ἐκβαλὸν φίλον στόμα, ὄλωλασ, ἐψεύσω μ’, ὅτ’ ἐσπίπτων πέπλουσ, Ὦ μῆτερ, ηὔδασ, ἦ πολύν σοι βοστρύχων πλόκαμον κεροῦμαι, πρὸσ τάφον θ’ ὁμηλίκων κώμουσ ἀπάξω, φίλα διδοὺσ προσφθέγματα. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, anapests 3:6)
  • στεῖλαί νυν ἀμφὶ χρωτὶ βυσσίνουσ πέπλουσ. (Euripides, episode, trochees 11:13)

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