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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 ὑπεράνω τῆσ πύλησ Ἐφραὶμ καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν πύλην ἰχθυρὰν καὶ πύργῳ Ἀναμεὴλ καὶ ἕωσ πύλησ τῆσ προβατικῆσ καὶ ἔστησαν ἐν πύλῃ τῆσ φυλακῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 12:35)
  • "νὴ Δία, φήσει τισ, ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ τῷ πύργῳ προσελθὼν καὶ τῆσ κώπησ ἁψάμενοσ ἀποφανοῦμαι τὴν μὲν εὐθεῖαν εἶναι τὸν δὲ πολύγωνον· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 2512)
  • "ἐτεὸν γὰρ ἐν Ἰλίου εὐρέι πύργῳ ἦν ὅτε καλλικόμῳ μαρνάμεθ’ ἀμφ’ Ἑλένῃ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1922)
  • ἀριστώντων δὲ ἐν τῇ αὐλῇ, ὡσ ἐπεισπηδῶσιν οὗτοι καὶ καταλαμβάνουσιν αὐτὰσ καὶ ἡρ́παζον τὰ σκεύη, αἱ μὲν ἄλλαι θεράπαιναι ἐν τῷ πύργῳ γὰρ ἦσαν, οὗπερ διαιτῶνται ὡσ ἤκουσαν κραυγῆσ, κλείουσι τὸν πύργον, καὶ ἐνταῦθα μὲν οὐκ εἰσῆλθον, τὰ δ’ ἐκ τῆσ ἄλλησ οἰκίασ ἐξέφερον σκεύη, ἀπαγορευούσησ τῆσ γυναικὸσ μὴ ἅπτεσθαι αὐτοῖσ, καὶ λεγούσησ ὅτι αὑτῆσ εἰή ἐν τῇ προικὶ τετιμημένα καὶ ὅτι τὰ πρόβατα ἔχετε πεντήκοντα καὶ τὸν παῖδα καὶ τὸν ποιμένα, πλείονοσ ἄξια ἢ κατεδικάσασθε· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 73:3)
  • ταῦτα δέ μου λέγοντοσ καὶ διαμαρτυρομένου, κακά με πολλὰ εἰπόντεσ ὁ μὲν Θεόφημοσ ἠκολούθει μόλισ, διατριβὰσ ἐμποιῶν καὶ φάσκων βούλεσθαι καὶ αὐτόσ τινασ παραλαβεῖν μάρτυρασ ταῦτα δ’ ἔλεγεν τεχνάζων τοῦ χρόνον ἐγγενέσθαι, ὁ δ’ Εὐέργοσ οὑτοσὶ εὐθὺσ ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ μεθ’ ἑτέρων ὁμοίων αὑτῷ ἐλθὼν εἰσ ἀγρόν, τὰ ὑπόλοιπα σκεύη, εἴ τινα τῇ προτεραίᾳ ἐν τῷ πύργῳ ἦν καὶ οὐκ ἔτυχεν ἔξω ὄντα, ἐπειδὴ δ’ ἐγὼ ἦλθον, διὰ τὴν χρείαν κατηνέχθη, ἐκβαλὼν τὴν θύραν ἥνπερ καὶ τῇ προτεραίᾳ ἐξέβαλον κακῶσ ἐνεστηκυῖαν, ᾤχετό μου λαβὼν τὰ σκεύη· (Demosthenes, Speeches 41-50, 81:1)

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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