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περιδρομή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιδρομή

Structure: περιδρομ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: peridramei=n

Sense

  1. a running round
  2. a revolution, orbit

Declension

First 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

  • ἐν ναυσὶν ὢν πρὸσ τοῖσιν ἐν Τροίᾳ δέκα ἔτεσι διῆλθον ἑπτὰ περιδρομὰσ ἐτῶν. (Euripides, Helen, episode, dialogue 2:12)
  • ὁ δὲ τόποσ καὶ πεδίον ἦν τῇ φάλαγγι βάσεωσ ἐπιπέδου καὶ χωρίων ὁμαλῶν δεομένῃ, καὶ λόφοι συνεχεῖσ ἄλλοσ ἐξ ἄλλου τοῖσ γυμνητεύουσι καὶ ψιλοῖσ ἀναφυγὰσ καὶ περιδρομὰσ ἔχοντεσ, διὰ μέσου δὲ ποταμοὶ ῥέοντεσ Αἴσων καὶ Λεῦκοσ οὐ μάλα βαθεῖσ τότε ̔θέρουσ γὰρ ἦν ὡρ́α φθίνοντοσ’ ἐδόκουν τινὰ δυσεργίαν ὅμωσ τοῖσ Ῥωμαίοισ παρέξειν. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 16 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a running round

  2. a revolution

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

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