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θυρεός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 수학 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θυρεός θυρεοῦ

Structure: θυρε (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: qu/ra

Sense

  1. a stone put against a door to keep it shut, a door-stone
  2. a wide oblong shield (like a door), opp. to ἀσπίς ‎(aspís, “the round shield”) (as Lat. scūtum to clipeus)
  3. disk forming part of καθετήρ ‎(kathetḗr)
  4. (mathematics) oval

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

  • ἐξελέξαντο θεοὺσ καινούσ. τότε ἐπολέμησαν πόλεισ ἀρχόντων. θυρεὸσ ἐὰν ὀφθῇ καὶ λόγχη ἐν τεσσαράκοντα χιλιάσιν ἐν Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 5:8)
  • Καὶ ἐπορεύθη ὁ ἀλλόφυλοσ πορευόμενοσ καὶ ἐγγίζων πρὸσ Δαυίδ, καὶ ἀνὴρ ὁ αἴρων τὸν θυρεὸν ἔμπροσθεν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐπέβλεψεν ὁ ἀλλόφυλος (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 17:53)
  • ὄρη τὰ ἐν Γελβουὲ μὴ καταβάτω δρόσοσ καὶ μὴ ὑετὸσ ἐφ̓ ὑμᾶσ καὶ ἀγροὶ ἀπαρχῶν, ὅτι ἐκεῖ προσωχθίσθη θυρεὸσ δυνατῶν, θυρεὸσ Σαοὺλ οὐκ ἐχρίσθη ἐν ἐλαίῳ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 1:21)
  • οὐχ οὕτωσ̣ τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ πρὸσ βασιλέα Ἀσσυρίων. οὐκ εἰσελεύσεται εἰσ τὴν πόλιν ταύτην καὶ οὐ τοξεύσει ἐκεῖ βέλοσ, καὶ οὐ προφθάσει αὐτὴν θυρεόσ, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐκχέῃ πρὸσ αὐτὴν πρόσχωμα. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 19:32)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ πομπῇ τῶν τε καταφράκτων ἱππέων ὀλίγοι καὶ τῶν δρεπανηφόρων ἁρμάτων δέκα παρῆλθον, ἑξήκοντα δὲ φίλοι καὶ στρατηγοὶ τῶν βασιλικῶν, μακραὶ δὲ χαλκέμβολοι νῆεσ ἑκατὸν καὶ δέκα ἅμα παρεκομίσθησαν, αὐτοῦ τε Μιθριδάτου χρύσεοσ ἑξάπουσ κολοσσόσ, καὶ θυρεόσ τισ διάλιθοσ, καὶ φορήματα εἴκοσι μὲν ἀργυρῶν σκευῶν, χρυσῶν δ’ ἐκπωμάτων καὶ ὅπλων καὶ νομίσματοσ δύο καὶ τριάκοντα. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 37 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. disk forming part of καθετήρ ‎

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