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πρέμνον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρέμνον πρέμνου

Structure: πρεμν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. the bottom of the trunk of a tree, the stump, the stem, trunk
  2. the root or bottom

Declension

Second 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’ ὡσ τάχιστα πρὸσ πόλιν σπεύσωμεν ὦ Φιλοῦργε, ὅπωσ ἄν, αὐταῖσ ἐν κύκλῳ θέντεσ τὰ πρέμνα ταυτί, ὅσαι τὸ πρᾶγμα τοῦτ’ ἐνεστήσαντο καὶ μετῆλθον, μίαν πυρὰν νήσαντεσ ἐμπρήσωμεν αὐτόχειρεσ πάσασ, ὑπὸ ψήφου μιᾶσ, πρώτην δὲ τὴν Λύκωνοσ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Parodos, strophe 1 1:1)
  • ὁρᾷσ δ’ ὅτι πρέμνα πᾶσι τοῖσ φυτευτηρίοισ πρόσεστιν· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 19 14:5)
  • ὅσ φησιν ὡσ ἐγὼ μὲν παρειστήκη, οἱ δ’ οἰκέται ἐξέτεμνον τὰ πρέμνα, ἀναθέμενοσ δὲ ὁ βοηλάτησ ὤχετο ἀπάγων τὰ ξύλα. (Lysias, Speeches, 24:2)
  • ἱερὰ τ’ ἀγρευταῖσι γερανδρύου ἀρκεύθοιο πρέμνα, λιθηλογέεσ θ’ Ἑρμέω ἱδρύσιεσ, αὐταί θ’ ἱλήκοιτε, καὶ εὐθήροιο δέχεσθε Σωσάνδρου ταχινῆσ σκῦλ’ ἐλαφοσσοϊήσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 6, chapter 253 1:1)
  • τοῦτο λίθοισ ὀξέσιν ἐπιτέμνοντεσ τὰ πρέμνα συνάγουσιν κατὰ τὰσ τομὰσ ἐκδακρῦον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 195:2)

Synonyms

  1. the root or bottom

Related

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

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