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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

  • ἥκετον δ’ ἔχοντε πρέμνον πράγματοσ πελωρίου. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parodos, lyric 1:12)
  • δρυὸσ γὰρ εὐκτεάνου πρέμνον ὄρθιον καὶ μέγα τεμών καὶ ἀσκήσασ ὥσπερ τρόπαιον ἀνεδήσατο καὶ κατήρτησεν ἐξ αὐτοῦ τὰ λάφυρα, κόσμῳ διαθεὶσ καὶ περιαρμόσασ ἕκαστον. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 8 2:1)
  • ὁ γὰρ οἰο͂σ ἐν οὔρεσι δένδρεα τέμνων δή ποθ’ ἁμαδρυάδοσ νύμφησ ἀθέριξε λιτάων, ἥ μιν ὀδυρομένη ἀδινῷ μειλίσσετο μύθῳ, μὴ ταμέειν πρέμνον δρυὸσ ἥλικοσ, ᾗ ἔπι πουλὺν αἰῶνα τρίβεσκε διηνεκέσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 2 8:6)
  • Ῥηϊδίωσ οὖν νεύει ὅκωσ πρέμνον ἔνθα καὶ ἔνθα, ἄνω τε καὶ κάτω πλώει. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 253)
  • καὶ γὰρ ἐμοὶ τὸ πάροιθεν ἐπάνθεεν ἁδύ τι κάλλοσ ὡσ κισσὸσ ποτὶ πρέμνον, ἐμὰν δ’ ἐπύκαζεν ὑπήναν, χαῖται δ’ οἱᾶ σέλινα περὶ κροτάφοισι κέχυντο, καὶ λευκὸν τὸ μέτωπον ἐπ’ ὀφρύσι λάμπε μελαίναισ· (Theocritus, Idylls, 17)

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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