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πύργος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πύργος πύργου

Structure: πυργ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. tower, watchtower
  2. (in the plural) towered wall
  3. the part of the house where women live
  4. castle, fortress, bulwark
  5. (military) division, column

Declension

Second 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

  • Καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν θησαυρῶν τοῦ βασιλέωσ Ἀσμὼθ ὁ τοῦ Ὀδιήλ, καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν θησαυρῶν τῶν ἐν ἀγρῷ καὶ ἐν ταῖσ κώμαισ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ ἐποικίοισ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ πύργοισ Ἰωνάθαν ὁ τοῦ Ὀζίου. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 27:25)
  • καὶ ᾠκοδόμησαν τὴν πόλιν Δαυὶδ τείχει μεγάλῳ καὶ ἰσχυρῷ, πύργοισ ὀχυροῖσ, καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτοῖσ εἰσ ἄκραν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 1:33)
  • καὶ συνεκλείσθησαν ὑπ̓ αὐτοῦ ἐν τοῖσ πύργοισ, καὶ παρενέβαλεν ἐπ̓ αὐτοὺσ καὶ ἀνεθεμάτισεν αὐτοὺσ καὶ ἐνεπύρισε τοὺσ πύργουσ αὐτῆσ ἐν πυρὶ σὺν πᾶσι τοῖσ ἐνοῦσι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 5:5)
  • καὶ ᾠκοδόμησε Σίμων τὰ ὀχυρώματα τῆσ Ἰουδαίασ, καὶ περιετείχισε πύργοισ ὑψηλοῖσ καὶ τείχεσι μεγάλοισ καὶ πύλαισ καὶ μοχλοῖσ καὶ ἔθετο βρώματα ἐν τοῖσ ὀχυρώμασι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 13:33)
  • οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Σίμωνα φιλαργυρήσαντεσ ὑπό τινων τῶν ἐν τοῖσ πύργοισ ἐπείσθησαν ἀργυρίῳ. ἑπτάκισ δὲ μυριάδασ δραχμὰσ λαβόντεσ εἴασάν τινασ διαρρυῆναι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 10:20)

Synonyms

  1. tower

  2. towered wall

  3. the part of the house where women live

    • μυχός (the inmost part of a house, the women's apartments)
  4. division

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