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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

  • δεινὸν γὰρ πόντου μετὰ κύμασι πήματι κύρσαι. (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 75:14)
  • οἴκαδ’ ἀπέλθοι δαιτὸσ ἀπὸ γλυκερῆσ, οὐκ ἄν ποτε πήματι κύρσαι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 3 2:9)
  • οὐ πρὸσ ἰατροῦ σοφοῦ θρηνεῖν ἐπῳδὰσ πρὸσ τομῶντι πήματι. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 3:18)
  • ἄτλητον δ’ ὀλοῷ ἐπὶ πήματι κῆδοσ ἕλοντο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 14:17)
  • ἔνθ’ ἄνεμοι πνείουσι δύο κρατερῆσ ὑπ’ ἀνάγκησ, καὶ τύποσ ἀντίτυποσ καὶ πῆμ’ ἐπὶ πήματι κεῖται· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 14, chapter 782)

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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