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πύργωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πύργωμα πύργωματος

Structure: πυργωματ (Stem)

Etym.: purgo/w

Sense

  1. that which is furnished with towers, a fenced city, fenced walls

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

  • ἀλλ’ οὐ φθάνειν χρὴ συσκιάζοντασ γένυν καὶ χαλκοπληθῆ Δαναϊδῶν ὁρμᾶν στρατὸν ἑπτάστολον πύργωμα Καδμείων ἔπι· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 1:11)
  • σὺ δ’ ἀντάμειψαί μ’, ὅστισ ὢν ἐλήλυθασ ἑπτάστομον πύργωμα Θηβαίασ χθονόσ. (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode15)
  • οὔπω δ’ ἐξαλάπαξα φίλησ πύργωμα κορείησ, ἀλλ’ ἔτ’ ἀδηρίτῳ σφίγγεται ἀμβολίῃ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 294 3:3)

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

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