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θρῆνος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θρῆνος θρήνου

Structure: θρην (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qre/omai

Sense

  1. wailing, lamenting, dirge
  2. complaint

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

  • ὡσ δ’ ἐπὶ τοῖσ λόγοισ ἕτεροι θρῆνοι μετὰ ᾠδῆσ κατὰ πάτριον ἔθοσ ὑπὸ χορῶν ἐσ αὐτὸν ᾔδοντο καὶ τὰ ἔργα αὖθισ αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ πάθοσ κατέλεγον καί που τῶν θρήνων αὐτὸσ ὁ Καῖσαρ ἐδόκει λέγειν, ὅσουσ εὖ ποιήσειε τῶν ἐχθρῶν ἐξ ὀνόματοσ, καὶ περὶ τῶν σφαγέων αὐτῶν ἐπέλεγεν ὥσπερ ἐν θαύματι· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 20 4:7)
  • ταφαὶ δέ σφι ἐν μέλιτι, θρῆνοι δὲ παραπλήσιοι τοῖσι ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 198 2:1)
  • θρῆνοι δὲ καὶ ταφαί σφεων εἰσὶ αἵδε· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 85 2:1)
  • ἡ γὰρ αὐλῳδία μέλη τε ἦν αὐλῶν τὰ σκυθρωπότατα καὶ ἐλεγεῖα θρῆνοι προσᾳδόμενα τοῖσ αὐλοῖσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 7 9:4)
  • οἶμαι δ’ εἰ καὶ μήπω πρόσθεν θρῆνοι κατ’ ἀνθρώπουσ ἐνομίσθησαν, νῦν γε ἐπὶ τῷδε δικαίωσ ἂν ἄρξασθαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:2)
  • τἆλλα δὲ ὅσα ἐλάττω τί ἂν ὑμνοῖμεν, ὧν ὁ μὴ φιλόσοφοσ τυφλωθεὶσ ὀδυρόμενοσ ἂν θρηνοῖ μάτην; (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 188:1)

Synonyms

  1. wailing

  2. complaint

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