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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

  • μηδ’ ἐπιχωρίοισ <ἔρισ> πτώμασιν αἱματίσαι πέδον γᾶσ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 22)
  • Αἱ δὲ δὴ κυφώσιεσ, αἱ ἐν τοῖσι πτώμασιν, ὡσ ἐπὶ τὸ πολὺ γίνονται, ἢν ἢ τοῖσιν ἰσχίοισιν ἐρείσῃ, ἢ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ὤμουσ πέσῃ. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 47.2)
  • τυμβωρυχοῦντεσ γοῦν τὰσ οἰκίασ ἐσύλων τοὺσ νεκροὺσ καὶ τὰ καλύμματα τῶν σωμάτων περισπῶντεσ μετὰ γέλωτοσ ἐξῄεσαν, τάσ τε ἀκμὰσ τῶν ξιφῶν ἐδοκίμαζον ἐν τοῖσ πτώμασιν, καί τινασ τῶν ἐρριμμένων ἔτι ζῶντασ διήλαυνον ἐπὶ πείρᾳ τοῦ σιδήρου· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 585:1)
  • ὅ τε γὰρ τῶν νεκρῶν ὄλισθοσ, ὡσ ἂν αἱμοφύρτων καὶ σωρηδὸν πεπτωκότων, ἥ τε τῶν χύδην ἐρριμμένων ὅπλων ὁμοῦ τοῖσ πτώμασιν ἀλογία δυσχερῆ τὴν δίοδον ἔμελλε ποιήσειν τοῖσ ἐν τάξει διαπορευομένοισ. (Polybius, Histories, book 15, chapter 14 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. fall

  2. misfortune

  3. one who has fallen

  4. of buildings

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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