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ῥύαξ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥύαξ ῥύακος

Structure: ῥυακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: r(e/w

Sense

  1. a rushing stream, a torrent, a stream of lava

Declension

Third 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

  • διὸ καὶ συχνὰσ ἡμέρασ συνεχῶσ πυρὸσ ἐπιφλέγοντοσ καῆναι τὴν ἐπιφάνειαν τῆσ γῆσ, καὶ τὰ μὲν ὄρη διὰ τὸ συμβεβηκὸσ κληθῆναι Πυρηναῖα, τὴν δ’ ἐπιφάνειαν τῆσ κατακεκαυμένησ χώρασ ἀργύρῳ ῥυῆναι πολλῷ, καὶ χωνευθείσησ τῆσ φύσεωσ, ἐξ ἧσ ὁ ἄργυροσ κατασκευάζεται, ῥύακασ γενέσθαι πολλοὺσ ἀργύρου καθαροῦ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 5, chapter 35 3:2)
  • ἐοίκε δὲ λαμβάνειν μεταβολὰσ πολλὰσ τὰ ἄκρα τοῦ ὄρουσ διὰ τὴν νομὴν τοῦ πυρόσ, τοτὲ μὲν εἰσ ἕνα κρατῆρα συμφερομένου τοτὲ δὲ σχιζομένου, καὶ τοτὲ μὲν ῥύακασ ἀναπέμποντοσ τοτὲ δὲ φλόγασ καὶ λιγνῦσ, ἄλλοτε δὲ καὶ μύδρουσ ἀναφυσῶντοσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 6, chapter 2 16:4)

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

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