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πόλισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πόλισμα πόλισματος

Structure: πολισματ (Stem)

Etym.: poli/zw

Sense

  1. a city, town
  2. the community

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

  • Θήβασ μὲν οὖν ἔκλειπε τοῦ νόμου χάριν, ἕπου δ’ ἅμ’ ἡμῖν πρὸσ πόλισμα Παλλάδοσ. (Euripides, Heracles, episode, lyric 3:25)
  • καλεῖσ πόλισμα Περσέωσ, Κυκλωπίων πόνον χερῶν; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, lyric1)
  • ὦ Κεβριόνη καὶ Πορφυρίων ὡσ σμερδαλέον τὸ πόλισμα. (Aristophanes, Birds, Agon, antepirrheme2)
  • τὸ μὲν πόλισμα τῆσ Νεφελοκοκκυγίασ ὁρᾶν τοδὶ πάρεστιν, οἷ πρεσβεύομεν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:1)
  • Κρεώφυλοσ δ’ ἐν τοῖσ Ἐφεσίων ̔̀ Ὥροισ οἱ τὴν Ἔφεσον, φησί, κτίζοντεσ καὶ πολλὰ ταλαιπωρηθέντεσ ἀπορίᾳ τόπου τὸ τελευταῖον πέμψαντεσ εἰσ θεοῦ ἠρώτων ὅπου τὸ πόλισμα θῶνται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 621)

Synonyms

  1. a city

Related

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

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