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πτέρωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πτέρωμα πτέρωματος

Structure: πτερωματ (Stem)

Etym.: ptero/w

Sense

  1. that which is feathered, a feathered arrow
  2. plumage

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

  • τούτοισ δὴ τρέφεταί τε καὶ αὔξεται μάλιστά γε τὸ τῆσ ψυχῆσ πτέρωμα, αἰσχρῷ δὲ καὶ κακῷ καὶ τοῖσ ἐναντίοισ φθίνει τε καὶ διόλλυται. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 137:1)
  • κατὰ γὰρ τὴν ἐαρινὴν ὡρ́αν παρ’ αὐτοῖσ ζέφυροι καὶ λίβεσ παμμεγέθεισ ἐκριπτοῦσιν ἐκ τῆσ ἐρήμου πλῆθοσ ἀκρίδων ἀμύθητον, τοῖσ τε μεγέθεσι διαλλάττον καὶ τῇ χρόᾳ τοῦ πτερώματοσ εἰδεχθὲσ καὶ ῥυπαρόν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 29 1:2)
  • ἡ μὲν οὖν Τάττα ἁλοπήγιόν ἐστιν αὐτοφυέσ, οὕτω δὲ περιπήττεται ῥᾳδίωσ τὸ ὕδωρ παντὶ τῷ βαπτισθέντι εἰσ αὐτὸ ὥστε στεφάνουσ ἁλῶν ἀνέλκουσιν, ἐπειδὰν καθῶσι κύκλον σχοίνινον, τά τε ὄρνεα ἁλίσκεται τὰ προσαψάμενα τῷ πτερώματι τοῦ ὕδατοσ παραχρῆμα πίπτοντα διὰ τὴν περίπηξιν τῶν ἁλῶν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 5 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. that which is feathered

  2. plumage

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

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