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θίς

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θίς θινός

Structure: θιν (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a heap, sand-heaps, sand-bank
  2. the beach, shore
  3. sand or mud, the very bottom

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

  • θῖνεσ νεκρῶν δὲ καὶ τριτοσπόρῳ γονῇ ἄφωνα σημανοῦσιν ὄμμασιν βροτῶν ὡσ οὐχ ὑπέρφευ θνητὸν ὄντα χρὴ φρονεῖν. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode, iambics 2:10)
  • ὅθεν οἶμαι θῖνέσ τε μεγάλαι καὶ χώματα ἐν αὐτῷ γίγνονται τῆσ ψάμμου, καθάπερ ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ συμβαίνει τὸ τοιοῦτον ἀπὸ πνευμάτων, ἐκεῖ μᾶλλον ὑπὸ τοῦ κλύδωνοσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 11:1)
  • ἔστι δὲ καὶ τὰ κύκλῳ τοιαῦτα σχεδόν, ἐρημία καὶ θῖνεσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 11:2)
  • αἱ μὲν οὖν θῖνεσ καὶ τὸ πρὸσ τῇ λίμνῃ χωρίον οὐδενὸσ ἄξια. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 57:2)
  • ἐκδέχονται δὲ ταύτην τὴν παράλιον ἀέριοι θῖνεσ ἅμμου κατά τε τὸ μῆκοσ καὶ τὸ πλάτοσ, μέλανεσ τὴν χρόαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 44 6:3)

Synonyms

  1. a heap

    • χῶσις (a heaping up ; a raising of a mound or bank )
  2. the beach

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

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