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πρύμνα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρύμνα πρύμνης

Structure: πρυμν (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of prumno/s

Sense

  1. the hindmost part of a ship, the stern, poop, to retire, draw back
  2. the vessel
  3. the bottom, the foot

Declension

First 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

  • εἰ δ’ αἰσχρὸν ἡγῇ μὴ συνεμπρῆσαι νεῶν πρύμνασ, πονήσασ τὸν πάροσ πολὺν χρόνον, τάξον μ’ Ἀχιλλέωσ καὶ στρατοῦ κατὰ στόμα. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:2)
  • πρευμενὴσ δ’ ἡμῖν γενοῦ λῦσαί τε πρύμνασ καὶ χαλινωτήρια νεῶν δὸσ ἡμῖν πρευμενοῦσ τ’ ἀπ’ Ἰλίου νόστου τυχόντασ πάντασ ἐσ πάτραν μολεῖν. (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:14)
  • ἢ κατὰ πρύμνασ ἤδη ναῦται στέλλονται κινεῖν κώπασ; (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, antistrophe 14)
  • λέγω δὲ προσπόλοισι πρὸσ πρύμνασ νεῶν τήνδ’ ἐκκομίζειν, ἔνθα ναυστολήσεται. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, episode 4:10)
  • τίνα φυγὰν πτερόεσσαν ἢ χθονὸσ ὑπὸ σκοτίων μυχῶν πορευθῶ, θανάτου λεύσιμον ἄταν ἀποφεύγουσα, τεθρίππων ὠκιστᾶν χαλᾶν ἐπιβᾶσ’, ἢ πρύμνασ ἐπὶ ναῶν; (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric3)

Synonyms

  1. the vessel

  2. the 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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