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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

  • συνεχῶν δὲ τοιῶνδε πταισμάτων αὐτοῖσ ἐπιγιγνομένων, πόλισ Ὄκιλισ, ἔνθα ἡ ἀγορὰ καὶ τὰ χρήματα ἦν τὰ Ῥωμαίων, μετέθετο ἐσ τοὺσ Κελτίβηρασ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 4:5)
  • Κατέλαβον δ’ αὐτοὺσ ἀπὸ Ῥώμησ πρέσβεισ Κίννασ τε καὶ Καικίλιοσ, οἳ τὴν βουλὴν ἔφασαν ἀπορεῖν εἰ τοσῶνδε πταισμάτων σφίσιν ἐν Ἰβηρίᾳ γενομένων ὁ Αἰμίλιοσ πόλεμον ἕτερον ἀρεῖται, καὶ ψήφισμα ἐπέδοσαν αὐτῷ προαγορεῦον Αἰμίλιον Οὐακκαίοισ μὴ πολεμεῖν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 13 6:1)
  • ἡ δὲ βουλὴ τούτοισ μὲν ἔχαιρε, πολλῶν δὲ γεγενημένων πταισμάτων ἐσ Μασσανάσσην ἔπεμπε, καὶ παρεκάλει συμμαχεῖν αὐτὸν ἐρρωμένωσ ἐπὶ Καρχηδόνα. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 16 1:2)
  • καὶ γὰρ σπάνιον ἔπταισεν ἐν πολέμῳ, καὶ τῶν πταισμάτων οὐκ αὐτὸσ αἴτιοσ, ἀλλ’ ἢ προδοσίᾳ τινῶν ἢ προπετείᾳ στρατιωτῶν ἐγένετο. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 613:3)
  • ὕλησ τε γὰρ ἦν ἀπορία, καὶ τῶν μὲν πόνων ἤδη τὸ σῶμα, τῶν δὲ ἐπαλλήλων πταισμάτων αἱ ψυχαὶ τοῖσ στρατιώταισ ἐλείποντο. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 14:1)

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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