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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

  • ἔνθεν ἐσαιεὶ ῥόμβῳ καὶ τυπάνῳ Ῥείην Φρύγεσ ἱλάσκονται. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 19:32)
  • μετὰ δὲ τὸν μαίανδρον πλέγμα τι σχοινοειδὲσ περιῆκτο ῥόμβῳ τὴν κατὰ μέσον ὄψιν ἐμφερέσ, ἐφ’ οὗ κρύσταλλόσ τε λίθοσ καὶ ἤλεκτρον ἐντετύπωτο τῇ παραλλήλῳ τῆσ ἰδέασ γειτνιάσει ψυχαγωγίαν θαυμαστὴν παρέχον τοῖσ βλέπουσιν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 84:1)

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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