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πῆμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πῆμα πῆματος

Structure: πηματ (Stem)

Etym.: cf. pa/sxw

Sense

  1. suffering, misery, calamity, woe, bane, woe, woe
  2. a bane, calamity

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πῆμα πήματε πήματα
Genitive πήματος πημάτοιν πημάτων
Dative πήματι πημάτοιν πήμασιν*
Accusative πῆμα πήματε πήματα
Vocative πῆμα πήματε πήματα

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

  • οὕτω δὲ κἀγὼ πόλλ’ ἔχουσα πήματα ἄφθογγόσ εἰμι καὶ παρεῖσ’ ἐῶ στόμα· (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode, antistrophe 3 3:12)
  • ἦ δεινά τισ Ἔρισ θεόσ, ἃ τάδε μήσατο πήματα γᾶσ βασιλεῦσιν, Λαβδακίδαισ πολυμόχθοισ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, strophe 14)
  • φόβοσ ἔχει με μή τισ ἐπὶ δώμασι σταθεὶσ ἐπὶ φοίνιον αἷμα πήματα πήμασιν ἐξεύρῃ. (Euripides, choral, strophe 17)
  • "Νίκανδροσ δ’ ἐν Γεωργικοῖσ καταλέγει καὶ τίνεσ αὐτῶν εἰσιν οἱ θανάσιμοι, λέγων ἐχθρὰ δ’ ἐλαίησ ῥοιῆσ τε πρίνου τε δρυὸσ τ’ ἄπο πήματα κεῖται, οἰδαλέων σύγκολλα βάρη πνιγόεντα μυκήτων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5278)
  • Πίνδαροσ δὲ ἓν παρ’ ἐσθλὸν σύνδυο πήματα δαίονται βροτοῖσ. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 11 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a bane

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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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