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θρῆνυς

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θρῆνυς θρῆνυος

Structure: θρηνυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: Qra/w

Sense

  1. a footstool
  2. the, bench

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

  • "ὁ γὰρ θρόνοσ αὐτὸ μόνον ἐλευθέριόσ ἐστιν καθέδρα σὺν ὑποποδίῳ, ὅπερ θρῆνυν καλοῦντεσ ἐντεῦθεν αὐτὸν ὠνόμασαν θρόνον τοῦ θρήσασθαι χάριν, ὅπερ ἐπὶ τοῦ καθέζεσθαι τάσσουσιν, ὡσ Φιλίτασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:4)
  • ὣσ ἄρ’ ἔφη, καὶ θρῆνυν ἑλὼν ὑπέφηνε τραπέζησ κείμενον, ᾧ ῥ’ ἔπεχεν λιπαροὺσ πόδασ εἰλαπινάζων· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 17 58:1)
  • ὣσ ἄρ’ ἔφη, καὶ θρῆνυν ἑλὼν βάλε δεξιὸν ὦμον, πρυμνότατον κατὰ νῶτον· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 17 64:1)
  • ἥν ποτε τέκτων ποίησ’ Ἰκμάλιοσ, καὶ ὑπὸ θρῆνυν ποσὶν ἧκε προσφυέ’ ἐξ αὐτῆσ, ὅθ’ ἐπὶ μέγα βάλλετο κῶασ. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 12:3)
  • Ἥφαιστοσ δέ κ’ ἐμὸσ πάϊσ ἀμφιγυήεισ τεύξει’ ἀσκήσασ, ὑπὸ δὲ θρῆνυν ποσὶν ἥσει, τῷ κεν ἐπισχοίησ λιπαροὺσ πόδασ εἰλαπινάζων. (Homer, Iliad, Book 14 24:9)

Synonyms

  1. a footstool

  2. the

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

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