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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

  • ὅτι οἰκοδομηθήσεται Ἱερουσαλὴμ σαπφείρῳ καὶ σμαράγδῳ καὶ λίθῳ ἐντίμῳ τὰ τείχη σου καὶ οἱ πύργοι καὶ οἱ προμαχῶνεσ ἐν χρυσίῳ καθαρῷ, (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 13:16)
  • καὶ πύργοι ξύλινοι ἐπ̓ αὐτοὺσ ὀχυροὶ σκεπαζόμενοι ἐφ̓ ἑκάστου θηρίου ἐζωσμένοι ἐπ̓ αὐτοῦ μηχαναῖσ, καὶ ἐφ̓ ἑκάστου ἄνδρεσ δυνάμεωσ δύο καὶ τριάκοντα οἱ πολεμοῦντεσ ἐπ̓ αὐτοῖσ καὶ ὁ Ἰνδὸσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 6:37)
  • ἐγὼ τεῖχοσ, καὶ μαστοί μου ὡσ πύργοι. ἐγὼ ἤμην ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ αὐτῶν ὡσ εὑρίσκουσα εἰρήνην. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 8:10)
  • καὶ ἔσται ἐπὶ παντὸσ ὄρουσ ὑψηλοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ παντὸσ βουνοῦ μετεώρου ὕδωρ διαπορευόμενον ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ, ὅταν ἀπόλωνται πολλοὶ καὶ ὅταν πέσωσι πύργοι. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 30:25)
  • καθάπερ γὰρ προβλῆτεσ λιμένων πύργοι τὰσ τῶν κυμάτων ἀπειλὰσ ἀνακόπτοντεσ γαληνὸν παρέχουσι τοῖσ εἰσπλέουσι τὸν ὅρμον, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 13:6)

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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