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σάλπιγξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σάλπιγξ σάλπιγγος

Structure: σαλπιγγ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from salpi/zw

Sense

  1. a war-trumpet, trump
  2. a trumpet-call

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

  • ΑΝΑΒΟΗΣΟΝ ἐν ἰσχύϊ καὶ μὴ φείσῃ, ὡσ σάλπιγγα ὕψωσον τὴν φωνήν σου, καὶ ἀνάγγειλον τῷ λαῷ μου τὰ ἁμαρτήματα αὐτῶν καὶ τῷ οἴκῳ Ἰακὼβ τὰσ ἀνομίασ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 58:1)
  • οἴνῳ τὸν οἶνον ἐξελαύνειν, σάλπιγγι τὴν σάλπιγγα, τῷ κήρυκι τὸν βοῶντα, κόπῳ κόπον, ψόφῳ ψόφον, τριωβόλῳ δὲ πόρνην, αὐθαδίαν αὐθαδίᾳ, Καλλίστρατον μαγείρῳ, στάσιν στάσει, μάχῃ μάχην, ὑπωπίοισ δὲ πύκτην, πόνῳ πόνον, δίκην δίκῃ, γυναικὶ τὴν γυναῖκα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 20 1:5)
  • "μεθ’ οὓσ Σιληνοὶ δύο ἐν πορφυραῖσ χλαμύσι καὶ κρηπῖσι λευκαῖσ, εἶχε δ’ αὐτῶν ὁ μὲν πέτασον καὶ κηρύκειον χρυσοῦν, ὁ δὲ σάλπιγγα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:107)
  • "τῆσ δ’ αὐλῆσ ἦν τὸ περίμετρον στάδιοι τέσσαρεσ, ἐγίνετο δὲ τὰ δεῖπνα πρὸσ σάλπιγγα τότε μὲν ἐν τοῖσ γάμοισ, καὶ ἄλλωσ δ’ αἰεὶ ὅτε τύχοι σπονδοποιούμενοσ,2 ὥστε πᾶν εἰδέναι τὸ στρατόπεδον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 547)
  • "οὕτωσ ἄρα ἑκάστου τὸν ἔλεον ἐξέστησεν ἡ τοῦ τολμήματοσ ἀπόνοια τῶν μὲν ἰδόντων, τῶν δ’ ἀκουσάντων, ὥσθ’ ἑξακισχιλίουσ ὑπὸ τὴν σάλπιγγα ἐκείνην τῶν βαρβάρων κατακοπῆναι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1872)

Synonyms

  1. a trumpet-call

Related

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

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