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πλημμυρίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλημμυρίς πλημμυρίδος

Structure: πλημμυριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: u in Hom., u_ in attic

Sense

  1. a rise of the sea, the wave, flood-tide
  2. a flood, deluge

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

  • ἀλλ’ οὔθ’ αἱ αὐξήσεισ ἀθρόαι καὶ αἰφνίδιοι γίνονται, οὔθ’ αἱ πλημμυρίδεσ τοσοῦτον ἐπιμένουσι χρόνον οὐδ’ ἄτακτοί εἰσιν, οὔτε κατὰ τὴν ἡμετέραν ἐπικλύζουσι θάλατταν οὐδ’ ὅπου ἔτυχε. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 10:6)
  • τῇ μὲν οὖν πλημμυρίδι ὁμολογεῖν τὸν ἐκ τοῦ Τυρρηνικοῦ πελάγουσ εἰσ τὸ Σικελικὸν καταφερόμενον ὡσ ἂν ἐκ μετεωροτέρασ ἐπιφανείασ, ὃν δὴ καὶ κατιόντα ὀνομάζεσθαι, ὁμολογεῖν δ’ ὅτι καὶ κατὰ τὸν αὐτὸν καιρὸν ἄρχεταί τε καὶ παύεται καθ’ ὃν αἱ πλημμυρίδεσ· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 22:8)
  • πρότερον δ’ ἱκανῶσ αἱ πλημμυρίδεσ καὶ ἡ παλίρροια τοῦ πελάγουσ ἀφῄρει τὴν χοῦν καὶ ἀνέσπα πρὸσ τὸ ἐκτόσ. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 42:7)
  • πλεῖστον δὲ αἱ πλημμυρίδεσ ἐλύπουν ἐν τοιούτοισ καὶ ταῦτα χωρίοισ καὶ αἱ ἀμπώτεισ. (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 4 45:3)

Synonyms

  1. a rise of the sea

  2. a flood

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

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