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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’ ἔσ τ’ ἐπάλξεισ καὶ πύλασ πυργωμάτων ὁρμᾶσθε πάντεσ, σοῦσθε σὺν παντευχίᾳ, πληροῦτε θωρακεῖα, κἀπὶ σέλμασιν πύργων στάθητε, καὶ πυλῶν ἐπ’ ἐξόδοισ μίμνοντεσ εὖ θαρσεῖτε, μηδ’ ἐπηλύδων ταρβεῖτ’ ἄγαν ὅμιλον· (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, episode 2:8)
  • βοᾷ δὲ χοὖτοσ γραμμάτων ἐν ξυλλαβαῖσ, ὡσ οὐδ’ ἂν Ἄρησ σφ’ ἐκβάλοι πυργωμάτων. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, antistrophe 1 1:8)

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

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