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πυθμήν

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυθμήν πυθμένος

Structure: πυθμην (Stem)

Sense

  1. bottom of a cup or jar
  2. The bottom of the sea

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

  • δύναται δὲ καὶ δύο πυθμένασ ὑποτίθεσθαι, τὸν μὲν οἱο͂ν τοῦ ποτηρίου φέροντα τὸν ὅλον ὄγκον καὶ κατὰ μείζονα κυκλοειδῆ περιγραφὴν ἔξαρσιν ἔχοντα τοῦ ὕψουσ σύμμετρον, τὸν δὲ κατ’ ἐλάττω κύκλον συνεχόμενον ἐν τῷ μείζονι,3 καθ’ ὅσον συννεύειν συμβέβηκεν εἰσ ὀξὺ τὸν φυσικὸν τοῦ ποτηρίου πυθμένα, ὥστε ὑπὸ δυοῖν πυθμένοιν φέρεσθαι τὸ ἔκπωμα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 77 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. bottom of a cup or jar

  2. The bottom of the sea

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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