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πίστωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πίστωμα πίστωματος

Structure: πιστωματ (Stem)

Etym.: pisto/w

Sense

  1. an assurance, warrant, guarantee, pledge

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

  • πρὸσ τάδ’ ὡσ οὕτωσ ἐχόντων τῶνδε, σύμβουλοι λόγου τοῦδέ μοι γένεσθε, Πέρσαι, γηραλέα πιστώματα· (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, trochees7)
  • ἦ κάρτ’ ἄτιμα καὶ παρ’ οὐδὲν εἰργάσω Ἥρασ τελείασ καὶ Διὸσ πιστώματα. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 1:1)
  • πιστώματα δὲ περὶ μαρτυριῶν μάρτυρασ μὲν μὴ ἔχοντι, ὅτι ἐκ τῶν εἰκότων δεῖ κρίνειν καὶ τοῦτ’ ἐστὶ τὸ "γνώμῃ τῇ ἀρίστῃ" , καὶ ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν ἐξαπατῆσαι τὰ εἰκότα ἐπὶ ἀργυρίῳ, καὶ ὅτι οὐχ ἁλίσκεται τὰ εἰκότα ψευδομαρτυριῶν· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 1, chapter 15 17:3)

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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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