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ῥῦμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥῦμα ῥῦματος

Structure: ῥυματ (Stem)

Etym.: R(u/w e)ru/w

Sense

  1. that which is drawn
  2. archers, shot
  3. a towing-line
  4. a defence, protection, of defence

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

  • Τίσ ἄρα μ’ εὐπλοκάμου κόμασ ῥῦμα δακρυόεν τανύσασ πατρίδοσ ὀλλυμένασ ἀπολωτιεῖ; (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, epode4)
  • πότερον τόξου ῥῦμα τὸ νικῶν, ἢ δορικράνου λόγχησ ἰσχὺσ κεκράτηκεν. (Aeschylus, Persians, choral, anapests2)
  • ἔστι δὲ κἀκ πολέμου τειρομένοισ βωμὸσ ἀρῆσ φυγάσιν ῥῦμα, δαιμόνων σέβασ. (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, antistrophe 33)
  • καίτοι σμικροὶ μεγάλων χωρὶσ σφαλερὸν πύργου ῥῦμα πέλονται· (Sophocles, Ajax, episode, anapests9)

Synonyms

  1. that which is drawn

    • γράμμα (that which is written, that which is drawn, picture)
  2. archers

  3. a defence

Related

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

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