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ποταμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ποταμός ποταμοῦ

Structure: ποταμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: PO, Root of some tenses of pi/nw

Sense

  1. river, stream
  2. canal

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ποταμός ποταμώ ποταμοί
Genitive ποταμοῦ ποταμοῖν ποταμῶν
Dative ποταμῷ ποταμοῖν ποταμοῖς
Accusative ποταμόν ποταμώ ποταμούς
Vocative ποταμέ ποταμώ ποταμοί

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

  • αὐτοῖν δὲ τοῖν μεγίστοιν ποταμοῖν τοῦ τε Γάγγεω καὶ τοῦ Ἰνδοῦ τὸν Γάγγεα μεγάθεϊ πολλόν τι ὑπερφέρειν Μεγασθένησ ἀνέγραψε, καὶ ὅσοι ἄλλοι μνήμην τοῦ Γάγγεω ἔχουσιν· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 4 2:1)
  • Φιλίππῳ μὲν δὴ τῆσ σατραπείασ ὁρ́ουσ ἔταξε τὰσ συμβολὰσ τοῦ τε Ἀκεσίνου καὶ Ἰνδοῦ καὶ ἀπολείπει ξὺν αὐτῷ τούσ τε Θρᾷκασ πάντασ καὶ ἐκ τῶν τάξεων ὅσοι ἐσ φυλακὴν τῆσ χώρασ ἱκανοὶ ἐφαίνοντο, πόλιν τε ἐνταῦθα κτίσαι ἐκέλευσεν ἐπ̓ αὐτῇ τῇ ξυμβολῇ τοῖν ποταμοῖν, ἐλπίσασ μεγάλην τε ἔσεσθαι καὶ ἐπιφανῆ ἐσ ἀνθρώπουσ, καὶ νεωσοίκουσ ποιηθῆναι. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 15 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. river

  2. canal

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