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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

  • τεκμαιρόμενοσ δὲ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ ἐκ τῆσ φυγῆσ καθ’ ἕνα καὶ δύο πρὸσ τὴν πόλιν ὑπάξειν σκοταίουσ, ἐλλοχίζει τοῖσ περὶ τὸ ἄστυ ῥείθροισ καὶ λόφοισ πολλοὺσ ἔχοντασ ἐγχειρίδια τῶν Ἀχαιῶν, ἐνταῦθα πλείστουσ ἀποθανεῖν συνέβη τῶν τοῦ Νάβιδοσ· (Plutarch, Philopoemen, chapter 14 6:2)
  • "βαρεῖα μὲν κὴρ τὸ μὴ πιθέσθαι, βαρεῖα δ’, εἰ τέκνον δαί̈‐ ξω, δόμων ἄγαλμα, μιαίνων παρθενοσφάγοισιν ῥείθροισ πατρῴουσ χέρασ πέλασ βωμοῦ· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 4 1:2)
  • οὔρεά μευ καὶ πόντον ὑπὲρ τύμβοιο χάρασσε, καὶ μέσον ἀμφοτέρων μάρτυρα Λητοΐδην, ἀενάων τε βαθὺν ποταμῶν ῥόον, οἵ ποτε ῥείθροισ Ξέρξου μυριόναυν οὐχ ὑπέμειναν Ἄρην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 2371)
  • ἐπεὶ δ’ ἤκουσαν πλησίον εἶναι τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, κατεστρατοπέδευσαν ἐπί τινοσ γεωλόφου περιεχομένου ῥείθροισ βαθέσι καὶ δυσπεράτοισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 38 2:2)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα αἰγιαλὸσ παρήκει κάθυγροσ, ναματιαίοισ καὶ γλυκέσι ῥείθροισ διειλημμένοσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 45 3:1)

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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