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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

  • "ῥόαν γὰρ ἐκ τῆσ χειρὸσ αὐτῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 6239)
  • "ἀμφισβητούντων Ἀθηναίων πρὸσ Βοιωτοὺσ περὶ τῆσ χώρασ ἣν καλοῦσι Σίδασ, Ἐπαμινώνδασ δικαιολογούμενοσ ἐξαίφνησ ἐκ τῆσ ἀριστερᾶσ μεταλαβὼν κεκρυμμένην ῥόαν καὶ δείξασ ἤρετο τί καλοῦσι τοῦτο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 6241)
  • "τῶν δ’ εἰπόντων ῥόαν ἀλλ’ ἡμεῖσ, εἶπε, σίδαν ὁ δὲ τόποσ τοῦτ’ ἔχει τὸ φυτὸν ἐν αὑτῷ πλεῖστον, ἀφ’ οὗ τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ εἴληφε προσηγορίαν· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 6242)
  • καὶ Σαοὺλ ἐκάθητο ἐπ̓ ἄκρου τοῦ βουνοῦ ὑπὸ τὴν ροὰν τὴν ἐν Μαγδών, καὶ ἦσαν μετ̓ αὐτοῦ ὡσ ἑξακόσιοι ἄνδρεσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 14:2)
  • ἄγ’, ὦ νεηθαλὲσ ὦ καλλίστασ προπόλευμα δά‐ φνασ, ἃ τὰν Φοίβου θυμέλαν σαίρεισ ὑπὸ ναοῖσ, κήπων ἐξ ἀθανάτων, ἵνα δρόσοι τέγγουσ’ ἱεραί, <ῥοὰν> ἀέναον παγᾶν ἐκπροϊεῖσαι, μυρσίνασ ἱερὰν φόβαν· (Euripides, Ion, choral, strophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. a pomegranate-tree

  2. a pomegranate

Related

Derived

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

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