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πτῶμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πτῶμα πτώματος

Structure: πτωματ (Stem)

Etym.: pi/ptw, pe/ptwka

Sense

  1. fall
  2. misfortune, calamity, defeat
  3. one who has fallen: corpse, dead body
  4. of buildings: ruin

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

  • ἀποστρέψαι ἄνθρωπον ἀπὸ ἀδικίασ, τὸ δὲ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ πτώματοσ ἐρρύσατο. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 33:17)
  • πρὸ συντριβῆσ ἡγεῖται ὕβρισ, πρὸ δὲ πτώματοσ κακοφροσύνη. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 16:14)
  • χωλευθῆναι γὰρ αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ πτώματοσ, ὁπότε ἐρρίφη ὑπὸ τοῦ Διὸσ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ εἴ γε μὴ οἱ Λήμνιοι καλῶσ ποιοῦντεσ ἔτι φερόμενον αὐτὸν ὑπεδέξαντο, κἂν ἐτεθνήκει ἡμῖν ὁ Ἥφαιστοσ ὥσπερ ὁ Ἀστυάναξ ἀπὸ τοῦ πύργου καταπεσών. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 6:2)
  • καὶ οὗτοσ μὲν ἀνασπασθεὶσ ἄνω μετέωρόσ ἐστι καὶ μετὰ μικρὸν καταπεσών, ἀπορραγέντοσ τοῦ λίνου ἐπειδὰν μηκέτι ἀντέχῃ πρὸσ τὸ βάροσ, μέγαν τὸν ψόφον ἐργάσεται, οὗτοσ δὲ ὀλίγον ἀπὸ γῆσ αἰωρούμενοσ, ἢν καὶ πέσῃ, ἀψοφητὶ κείσεται,^ μόλισ καὶ τοῖσ γείτοσιν ἐξακουσθέντοσ τοῦ πτώματοσ. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 16:8)
  • ὁρῶ μὲν πτώματοσ τεκμήριον. (Euripides, episode 3:34)

Synonyms

  1. fall

  2. misfortune

  3. one who has fallen

  4. of buildings

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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