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θραῦσμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: θραῦσμα θραυσ́ματος

Structure: θραυσματ (Stem)

Etym.: from θραύω, θραύσω

Sense

  1. that which is broken, a fragment, wreck, piece

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative θραῦσμα θραύσματε θραύσματα
Genitive θραύσματος θραυσμάτοιν θραυσμάτων
Dative θραύσματι θραυσμάτοιν θραύσμασιν*
Accusative θραῦσμα θραύσματε θραύσματα
Vocative θραῦσμα θραύσματε θραύσματα

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

  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πάντωσ ἀποθανεῖν ἔγνωστο, κατάξαντα τὸν μέγιστον τῶν σκύφων ἑνὶ τῶν θραυσμάτων χρήσασθαι εἰσ τὴν σφαγὴν ἐντεμόντα τῇ ὑάλῳ τὸν λαιμόν. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 25 1:2)
  • οἱ δὲ Στωικοί φασι τὸν ἀέρα μὴ συγκεῖσθαι ἐκ θραυσμάτων, ἀλλὰ συνεχῆ εἶναι, δι’ ὅλου μηδὲν κενὸν ἔχοντα ἐπειδὰν δὲ πληγῇ πνεύματι, κυματοῦται κατὰ κύκλουσ ὀρθοὺσ εἰσ ἄπειρον, ἑώσ πληρώσῃ τὸν περικείμενον ἀέρα, ὡσ ἐπὶ τῆσ κολυμβήθρασ τῆσ πληγείσησ λίθῳ · (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 4, 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. that which is broken

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

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