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ῥεῖθρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥεῖθρον ῥεῖθρου

Structure: ῥειθρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: r(e/w

Sense

  1. that which flows, a river, stream, streams
  2. the bed or channel of a river

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

  • γὰρ αἱ πεῖναι καθάπερ τὰ κοπτόμενα ῥεῖθρα τραχεῖαι καὶ χαραδρώδεισ, καὶ βίᾳ τὴν τροφὴν ἕλκουσιν ἀεὶ λυττῶσαι, οὐκ ὀρέξεσιν ἐοικυῖαι σιτίων δεομέναισ ἀλλὰ φλεγμοναῖσ φαρμάκων καὶ καταπλασμάτων. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 22 3:1)
  • Τυρὼ δὲ ἡ Σαλμωνέωσ θυγάτηρ καὶ Ἀλκιδίκησ παρὰ Κρηθεῖ τῷ Σαλμωνέωσ ἀδελφῷ τρεφομένη ἔρωτα ἴσχει Ἐνιπέωσ τοῦ ποταμοῦ, καὶ συνεχῶσ ἐπὶ τὰ τούτου ῥεῖθρα φοιτῶσα τούτοισ ἐπωδύρετο. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 1, chapter 9 8:1)
  • Ζεὺσ δὲ Ἀσωπὸν μὲν κεραυνώσασ διώκοντα πάλιν ἐπὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα ἀπέπεμψε ῥεῖθρα διὰ τοῦτο μέχρι καὶ νῦν ἐκ τῶν τούτου ῥείθρων ἄνθρακεσ φέρονται, Αἴγιναν δὲ κομίσασ εἰσ τὴν τότε Οἰνώνην λεγομένην νῆσον, νῦν δὲ Αἴγιναν ἀπ’ ἐκείνησ κληθεῖσαν, μίγνυται, καὶ τεκνοῖ παῖδα ἐξ αὐτῆσ Αἰακόν. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 12 6:11)
  • καὶ τούτου μὲν ὁ Ἥφαιστοσ τὰ ῥεῖθρα ἀναξηραίνει πολλῇ φλογὶ διώξασ, ὁ δ’ Ἀχιλλεὺσ Ἕκτορα ἐκμονομαχίασ ἀναιρεῖ καὶ ἐξάψασ αὐτοῦ τὰ σφυρὰ ἐκ τοῦ ἁρ́ματοσ σύρων ἐπὶ τὰσ ναῦσ παραγίνεται. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book E, chapter 4 10:5)
  • ναὶ μέλοι, ὡσ κρήναισ ἄφθιτα ἄφθιτα ῥεῖθρα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 264a3)

Synonyms

  1. that which flows

Related

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

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