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περιφορά

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιφορά

Structure: περιφορ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: perife/romai

Sense

  1. meats carried round
  2. a going round, rotatory motion, circuit, revolution
  3. the revolving vault
  4. society

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative περιφορά περιφορᾱ́ περιφοραί
Genitive περιφορᾶς περιφοραῖν περιφορῶν
Dative περιφορᾷ περιφοραῖν περιφοραῖς
Accusative περιφορᾱ́ν περιφορᾱ́ περιφορᾱ́ς
Vocative περιφορᾱ́ περιφορᾱ́ περιφοραί

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

  • περιφοραῖσ κυκλούμενοσ ὥσπερ κυλιστὸσ στέφανοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 23 1:1)
  • ἐπαινεῖ δὲ τὸ Κίμωνοσ ἐμμελὲσ καὶ ὑγρὸν καὶ μεμουσωμένον ἐν ταῖσ περιφοραῖσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 5 3:3)
  • "ἐπεὶ ταῖσ γε τῶν ὀκτὼ σφαιρῶν περιφοραῖσ Σειρῆνασ οὐ Μούσασ ἰσαρίθμουσ ἐπέστησεν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 9:9)
  • "ὁ δὲ Πλάτων ἄτοποσ, ταῖσ μὲν ἀιδίοισ καὶ θείαισ περιφοραῖσ ἀντὶ τῶν Μουσῶν τὰσ Σειρῆνασ ἐνιδρύων, οὐ πάνυ φιλανθρώπουσ οὐδὲ χρηστὰσ δαίμονασ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 1, 10:2)

Synonyms

  1. meats carried round

  2. a going round

  3. the revolving vault

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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