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ῥόμβος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥόμβος ῥόμβου

Structure: ῥομβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: r(e/mbw

Sense

  1. bull-roarer, an instrument whirled on the end of a string
  2. anything which may be turned or spun
  3. top (toy)
  4. magical wheel used by magicians
  5. type of tambourine
  6. penis
  7. a spinning motion
  8. rhombus
  9. type of fish including the turbot
  10. a surgeon's bandage

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

  • "τὰ δὲ τῶν Ιὤνων ἰοβαφῆ καὶ πορφυρᾶ καὶ κρόκινα ῥόμβοισ ὑφαντά· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:71)
  • "τράχηλοσ μέλασ, παχύτεροσ καὶ βραχύτεροσ τῶν ὀρνίθων, τὸ δὲ σῶμα ἅπαν ποικίλον, μέλανοσ ὄντοσ τοῦ χρώματοσ ὅλου, πτίλοισ λευκοῖσ καὶ πυκνοῖσ διειλημμένου οὐ μείζοσιν φακῶν, οὗτοι δ’ εἰσὶν ἐν ῥόμβοισ οἱ κυκλίσκοι ἧσσον μέλασι τοῦ ὅλου χρώματοσ · (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 71 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. top

  2. type of tambourine

  3. penis

  4. a spinning motion

  5. type of fish including the turbot

  6. a surgeon's bandage

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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