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ῥόπτρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥόπτρον ῥόπτρου

Structure: ῥοπτρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: r(e/pw

Sense

the wood in a mouse-trap
a tambourine or kettledrum
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

νῦν δὲ καὶ ῥόπτρων χέρασ ἡδέωσ ἐκκρημνάμεσθα καὶ προσεννέπω πύλασ. (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees7)
Πτολεμαῖόσ τε ὁ τὴν ἐν Ἐφέσῳ διέπων φρουρὰν υἱὸσ ὢν τοῦ Φιλαδέλφου βασιλέωσ Εἰρήνην εἶχε τὴν ἑταίραν, ἥτισ ὑπὸ Θρᾳκῶν ἐν Ἐφέσῳ ἐπιβουλευομένου τοῦ Πτολεμαίου καὶ καταφυγόντοσ εἰσ τὸ τῆσ Ἀρτέμιδοσ ἱερὸν συγκατέφυγεν καὶ ἀποκτεινάντων αὐτὸν ἐκείνων ἡ Εἰρήνη ἐχομένη τῶν ῥόπτρων τῶν θυρῶν τοῦ ἱεροῦ ἔρραινεν τοῦ αἵματοσ τοὺσ βωμούσ, ἑώσ καὶ αὐτὴν κατέσφαξαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 642)

Synonyms

the wood in a mouse-trap
- μυάγρα (a mouse-trap)
a tambourine or kettledrum
- τύμπανον (a kettledrum)
- ῥόμβος (type of tambourine)

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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ῥόπτρον

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the wood in a mouse-trap

a tambourine or kettledrum

Similar forms

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the wood in a mouse-trap

a tambourine or kettledrum

Similar forms

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