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ῥόα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥόα

Structure: ῥο (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. a pomegranate-tree
  2. a pomegranate
  3. a knob shaped like a pomegranate

Declension

First 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

  • μεταβάλλει δὲ καὶ ὁ στρυφνὸσ ἐν ταῖσ φοινικοβαλάνοισ καὶ ὁ αὐστηρὸσ ἐν ταῖσ ῥόαισ εἰσ τὸν γλυκύν· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 5 2:2)
  • καὶ τῶν ἄλλων δὲ καρπῶν τοῖσ οἰνώδεσι μᾶλλον ὡσ ψυκτικοῖσ χρωμένουσ τοὺσ ἰατροὺσ ὁρῶμεν ὥσπερ ῥόαισ καὶ μήλοισ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 3, 15:1)
  • χωροῦσι δ’ ὥστ’ ὄρνιθεσ ἀρθεῖσαι δρόμῳ πεδίων ὑποτάσεισ, αἳ παρ’ Ἀσωποῦ ῥοαῖσ εὔκαρπον ἐκβάλλουσι Θηβαίων στάχυν· (Euripides, episode, trochees 8:7)
  • σὲ δ’ Ἀρκάδων χρὴ πόλιν ἐπ’ Ἀλφειοῦ ῥοαῖσ οἰκεῖν Λυκαίου πλησίον σηκώματοσ· (Euripides, episode, anapests 4:6)
  • οὐδέ πω βωμὸσ θεᾶσ Ἑλληνικαῖσιν ἐξεφοινίχθη ῥοαῖσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode21)
  • οὔκουν ἐν Ἄργει <γ’> οὐδ’ ἐπ’ Εὐρώτα ῥοαῖσ. (Euripides, Helen, episode 6:12)
  • πῶσ δ’ αὖ κατάρξῃ θυμάτων, ἑλὼν πάτραν, καὶ σκῦλα γράψεισ πῶσ ἐπ’ Ἰνάχου ῥοαῖσ; (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode, lyric 13:5)

Synonyms

  1. a pomegranate-tree

  2. a pomegranate

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Derived

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

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