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θῶμιγξ?

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration: thōminx

Principal Part: θῶμιγξ θῶμιγγος

Structure: θωμιγγ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a cord, string, a bow-string

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

  • πολλὰ μὲν γὰρ ἐκ χερῶν πέτροισιν ἠράσσοντο, τοξικῆς τ ἄπο θώμιγγος ἰοὶ προσπίτνοντές ὤλλυσαν: (Aeschylus, Persians, episode 4:13)
  • ἔξω, κελεύω, τῶνδε δωμάτων τάχος χωρεῖτ, ἀπαλλάσσεσθε μαντικῶν μυχῶν, μὴ καὶ λαβοῦσα πτηνὸν ἀργηστὴν ὄφιν, χρυσηλάτου θώμιγγος ἐξορμώμενον, ἀνῇς ὑπ ἄλγους μέλαν ἀπ ἀνθρώπων ἀφρόν, ἐμοῦσα θρόμβους οὓς ἀφείλκυσας φόνου. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode1)
  • ἐν τεμένεϊ Ἀφροδίτης κατέαται στέφανον περὶ τῇσι κεφαλῇσι ἔχουσαι θώμιγγος πολλαὶ γυναῖκες: (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 199 3:2)
  • οἶδα δὲ καὶ ὑπὸ Ιὤνων, ὁπότε ἴδοιέν τινα πονοῦντα ἐπὶ οὐδενὶ ὄνησιν φέροντι, ὑπὸ τούτων εἰρημένον ὡς ὁ ἀνὴρ οὗτος συνάγει τοῦ Ὄκνου τὴν θώμιγγα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 29 3:2)
  • θώμιγγι δ ἔστεπται ἑκάστη: (Strabo, Geography, book 16, chapter 1 40:7)
  • καὶ τὰς μὲν συνοχηδὸν ἀνέκδρομος ὤχμασε θώμιγξ, τὸν δὲ μόνον πλεκτῶν αὖθι μεθῆκε λίνων. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3432)

Synonyms

  1. a cord

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

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