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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

  • καὶ γὰρ καὶ περὶ τάξεωσ τῶν περιφορῶν πολλάκισ ἐλέχθη καὶ περὶ τῶν μετὰ τὸ δεῖπνον ἐπιτελουμένων, ἅπερ καὶ μόλισ ἀναπεμπάζομαι, εἰπόντοσ τινὸσ τῶν ἑταίρων τὰ ἐκ τῶν Λακώνων Πλάτωνοσ ἰαμβεῖα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15 1:2)
  • κύκλων καὶ τὰ τάχη τῶν περιφορῶν, ὥσπερ ὄργανα ἐν τεταγμένοισ λόγοισ ἔχειν ἐμμέτρωσ πρὸσ ἄλληλα καὶ πρὸσ τὸ ὅλον, εἰ καὶ τὸ ποσὸν ἡμᾶσ τοῦ μετρίου διαπέφευγε· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 33 14:1)

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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