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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

παραπλῆγεσ δ̓ ἀμφὶ ῥόπτροισ κελαδοῦσι Κρητὶ ῥυθμῷ νόμον Κορύβαντεσ εὐάν. (Lucian, 7)
νῦν δὲ καὶ ῥόπτρων χέρασ ἡδέωσ ἐκκρημνάμεσθα καὶ προσεννέπω πύλασ. (Euripides, Ion, episode, trochees7)
"αἱ δὲ τῆσ περιστάσεωσ θύραι τὸν ἀριθμὸν εἴκοσι οὖσαι θυίναισ κατεκεκόλληντο σανίσιν, ἐλεφαντίνουσ ἔχουσαι τοὺσ κόσμουσ, ἡ δ’ ἐνήλωσισ ἡ κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ ῥόπτρα ἐξ ἐρυθροῦ γεγονότα χαλκοῦ τὴν χρύσωσιν ἐκ πυρὸσ εἰλήφει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3727)
καίτοι μὴ κόψαντά γε θύραν εἰσ οἰκίαν ἀλλοτρίαν οὐ νομίζεται παρελθεῖν ἀλλὰ νῦν μὲν εἰσὶ θυρωροί, πάλαι δὲ ῥόπτρα ἅ κρουόμενα πρὸσ ταῖσ θύραισ αἴσθησιν παρεῖχεν, ἵνα μὴ τὴν οἰκοδέσποιναν ἐν μέσῳ καταλάβῃ ὁ ἀλλότριοσ ἢ τὴν παρθένον ἢ κολαζόμενον οἰκέτην ἢ κεκραγυίασ τὰσ θεραπαινίδασ· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 3 2:4)
εἰσὶ θυρωροί, πάλαι δὲ ῥόπτρα κρουόμενα πρὸσ ταῖσ θύραισ αἴσθησιν παρεῖχεν, ἵνα μὴ τὴν οἰκοδέσποιναν ἐν μέσῳ καταλάβῃ ὁ ἀλλότριοσ ἢ τὴν παρθένον ἢ κολαζόμενον οἰκέτην ἢ κεκραγυίασ τὰσ θεραπαινίδασ· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 3 5:1)
Ἀρχίλοχοσ δὲ ῥόπτρον ἔφη, οἱο͂ν· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 358)

Synonyms

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

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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

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the wood in a mouse-trap

a tambourine or kettledrum

Similar forms

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