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ῥόπτρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥόπτρον ῥόπτρου

Structure: ῥοπτρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: r(e/pw

Sense

  1. the wood in a mouse-trap
  2. a tambourine or kettledrum
  3. the knocker on a housedoor

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ῥόπτρον ῥόπτρω ῥόπτρα
Genitive ῥόπτρου ῥόπτροιν ῥόπτρων
Dative ῥόπτρῳ ῥόπτροιν ῥόπτροις
Accusative ῥόπτρον ῥόπτρω ῥόπτρα
Vocative ῥόπτρον ῥόπτρω ῥόπτρα

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

  • ἔδησε τὸν ἵππον ἐκ τοῦ ῥόπτρου τοῦ ἱεροῦ ὡσ ἀποδιδούσ, τῇ δ’ ἐπιούσῃ ὑφείλετο. (Lysias, Speeches, 3:1)
  • ὡσ δ’ εἰσῆλθον, ἐπισπάσασα τὴν θύραν εἴχετο τοῦ ῥόπτρου, ἑώσ ἀπέθανεν ὁ ἀνήρ. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 42:3)

Synonyms

  1. the wood in a mouse-trap

  2. a tambourine or kettledrum

Similar forms

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

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