Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

πήδημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πήδημα πήδηματος

Structure: πηδηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from phda/w

Sense

  1. a leap, bound
  2. a beating or throbbing

Declension

Third 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

  • θὲσ ἐσ χορόν, ὦ φίλα, ἴχνοσ, ὡσ νεβρὸσ οὐράνιον πήδημα κουφίζουσα σὺν ἀγλαί̈ᾳ. (Euripides, choral, strophe1)
  • Ἀλεξάνδρου δ’ ἐν Ὀξυδράκαισ τὸ δεινὸν ἐκεῖνο πήδημα καὶ ἄπιστον ἀκούουσι καὶ θεωμένοισ φοβερόν, ἐκ τειχῶν ἀφέντοσ ἑαυτὸν εἰσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ δόρασι, καὶ βέλεσι. (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 12 5:5)
  • χὠ χιλίαρχοσ Δαδάκησ πληγῇ δορὸσ πήδημα κοῦφον ἐκ νεὼσ ἀφήλατο· (Aeschylus, Persians, episode9)
  • θαλάσσῃ καλούμενον Γλαύκου πήδημα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 10:1)

Synonyms

  1. a leap

Related

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION