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πυλών

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυλών πυλῶνος

Structure: πυλων (Stem)

Etym.: pu/lh

Sense

  1. a gateway, gate-house

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πυλών πυλῶνε πυλῶνες
Genitive πυλῶνος πυλώνοιν πυλώνων
Dative πυλῶνι πυλώνοιν πυλῶσιν*
Accusative πυλῶνα πυλῶνε πυλῶνας
Vocative πυλών πυλῶνε πυλῶνες

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

  • οἱ δ’ Ἀδρανῖται τὰσ πύλασ ἀνοίξαντεσ προσέθεντο τῷ Τιμολέοντι, μετὰ φρίκησ καί θαύματοσ ἀπαγγέλλοντεσ ὡσ ἐνισταμένησ τῆσ μάχησ οἱ μὲν ἱεροὶ τοῦ νεὼ πυλῶνεσ αὐτόματοι διανοιχθεῖεν, ὀφθείη δὲ τοῦ θεοῦ τὸ μὲν δόρυ σειόμενον ἐκ τῆσ αἰχμῆσ ἄκρασ, τὸ δὲ πρόσωπον ἱδρῶτι πολλῷ ῥεόμενον. (Plutarch, Timoleon, chapter 12 6:1)
  • ἀπὸ ἀνατολῆσ πυλῶνεσ τρεῖσ, καὶ ἀπὸ βορρᾶ πυλῶνεσ τρεῖσ, καὶ ἀπὸ νότου πυλῶνεσ τρεῖσ, καὶ ἀπὸ δυσμῶν πυλῶνεσ τρεῖσ· (APOKALUYIS IWANOU, chapter 19 57:1)

Synonyms

  1. a gateway

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

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