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περιβολή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιβολή

Structure: περιβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: periba/llw

Sense

  1. anything which is thrown round, a covering, embraces, walls round
  2. a space enclosed, compass, compass
  3. a circumference, circuit, a circuit
  4. a compassing, endeavouring after
  5. the whole compass, long and short

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative περιβολή περιβολᾱ́ περιβολαί
Genitive περιβολῆς περιβολαῖν περιβολῶν
Dative περιβολῇ περιβολαῖν περιβολαῖς
Accusative περιβολήν περιβολᾱ́ περιβολᾱ́ς
Vocative περιβολή περιβολᾱ́ περιβολαί

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

  • ἑπτάπυργοι πῶσ ἔχουσι περιβολαί; (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode12)
  • Καὶ παραιρήματοσ περιβολαὶ τοσαῦται, ὥστε μὴ πιέζειν‧ μαλθακὰ δὲ, μὴ παχέα‧ ταῦτα πάντα, ὡσ ἐπὶ μήκει καὶ πλάτει καὶ πάχει τοῦ παθόντοσ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., KAT' IHTREION., 12.5)
  • τὸ δὲ τῶν μητέρων καὶ τὸ γάλα ἀγαθὸν καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα καὶ φίλαι αἱ περιβολαί. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 7 4:3)
  • θανάτου τάδ’ ἤδη περιβόλαι’ ἀνήμμεθα. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, anapests 3:18)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ σαρκὸσ περιβόλαι’ ἐκτησάμην ἡβῶντα, μόχθουσ οὓσ ἔτλην τί δεῖ λέγειν; (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 2:8)

Synonyms

  1. anything which is thrown round

  2. a space enclosed

  3. a circumference

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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