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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

  • αὐτοὶ γὰρ τούτουσ ηὐξήσατε ῥύματα δόντεσ, καὶ διὰ ταῦτα κακὴν ἔσχετε δουλοσύνην. (Plutarch, , chapter 30 6:3)
  • αὐτοὶ γὰρ τούτοισ ηὐξήσατε ῥύματα δόντεσ καὶ διὰ ταῦτα κακὴν ἔσχετε δουλοσύνην· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 58)
  • αὐτοὶ γὰρ τούτουσ ηὐξήσατε ῥύματα δόντεσ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο κακὴν ἔσχετε δουλοσύνην. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, fragmenta libri ix, chapter 20 5:2)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ τούτοισ ἐπέστησαν τὰσ ἱππηγούσ, ῥύματα δόντεσ ἐξ αὐτῶν ταῖσ τοῦ τρίτου στόλου ναυσίν. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 26 14:1)
  • οἱ δ’ ἀφέμενοι τὰ ῥύματα συνεπλέκοντο καὶ διηγωνίζοντο τοῖσ πολεμίοισ. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 28 2:2)

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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