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πταῖσμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πταῖσμα πταῖσματος

Structure: πταισματ (Stem)

Etym.: from pta/c

Sense

  1. a stumble, trip, false step
  2. a failure, misfortune, defeat

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

  • καὶ τῶν μὲν προσφιλονεικούντων τοῖσ πταίσμασιν αἰδοῖ τε φυγῆσ ταχείασ καὶ μεταβολῆσ ἐλπίδι, τῶν δὲ μὴ κοπιώντων ἐν οἷσ εὐτύχουν, παρέτεινεν ἡ μάχη μέχρι δείλησ, ἑώσ ἀνῃρέθησαν μὲν μύριοι τῶν Ιοὐδαίων τὸν ἀριθμὸν ἄνδρεσ καὶ δύο τῶν ἡγεμόνων, Ιωἄννησ τε καὶ Σίλασ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 26:1)
  • ἡμῶν δ’ ἀρετὴ καὶ εὐπείθεια καὶ τὸ γενναῖον, ὃ κἀν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ εὐτυχήμασιν ἀκμάζει κἀν τοῖσ πταίσμασιν οὐ μέχρι τέλουσ σφάλλεται. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 569:2)
  • εἶναι δ’ ὥσπερ ἀπειροκάλων τὸ λίαν ἐπαίρεσθαι ταῖσ εὐπραγίαισ, οὕτωσ ἀνάνδρων τὸ καταπτήσσειν ἐν τοῖσ πταίσμασιν· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 49:1)
  • μάλιστα δέ πωσ ἐπὶ πταίσμασιν ἐθέλει μεγάλοισ προαφαιρεῖσθαι τὸν ἡγεμόνα ὁ δαίμων, καθὰ δὴ καὶ Ἀθηναίων ἀπῆγεν Ἱπποκράτην τε τὸν Ἀρίφρονοσ στρατηγοῦντα ἐπὶ Δηλίῳ καὶ ὕστερον ἐν Θεσσαλίᾳ Λεωσθένην. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 6 2:3)
  • ἔτοσ δ’ ἤδη τοῖσ περὶ τὴν ἀδελφὴν αὐτοῦ πταίσμασιν διεληλύθει δεύτερον, καὶ μέλλων ἐπὶ τὴν τῶν ἰδίων κουρὰν ἐξιέναι θρεμμάτων εἰσ Βελσεφών, πόλισ δ’ ἐστὶν αὕτη τῆσ Ἐφράμου κληρουχίασ, παρακαλεῖ τὸν πατέρα σὺν καὶ τοῖσ ἀδελφοῖσ ἐλθεῖν πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἐφ’ ἑστίασιν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 7 212:1)

Synonyms

  1. a failure

Related

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

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