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σαύνιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σαύνιον

Structure: σαυνι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: Foreign word.

Sense

  1. a javelin

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σαύνιον σαυνίω σαύνια
Genitive σαυνίου σαυνίοιν σαυνίων
Dative σαυνίῳ σαυνίοιν σαυνίοις
Accusative σαύνιον σαυνίω σαύνια
Vocative σαύνιον σαυνίω σαύνια

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

  • καὶ πηγὴ Βουλίοισ ἐστὶ καλουμένη Σαύνιον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 37 6:7)
  • ὁπλισμὸν δ’ εἶναι τόξον καὶ οἰστοὺσ τριπήχεισ, ἢ σαύνιον, καὶ πέλτην καὶ μάχαιραν πλατεῖαν τρίπηχυν· (Strabo, Geography, book 15, chapter 1 132:7)
  • ὁ δὲ Πέρσησ νομίσασ παρὰ τῶν θεῶν αὐτῷ δεδόσθαι τὸν τῆσ μονομαχίασ καιρόν, εἰ συμβήσεται διὰ τῆσ ἰδίασ ἀνδραγαθίασ ἐλευθερωθῆναι τῶν μεγίστων φόβων τὴν Ἀσίαν καὶ τὴν περιβόητον Ἀλεξάνδρου τόλμαν ταῖσ ἰδίαισ χερσὶ καταλυθῆναι καὶ τὴν τῶν Περσῶν δόξαν μὴ καταισχυνθῆναι φθάνει βαλὼν τὸ σαυνίον ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον καὶ οὕτω μετὰ σφοδρᾶσ εἰσπεσὼν ῥύμησ καὶ βιαίωσ τὸ δόρυ ὠσάμενοσ διαρρήξασ τε τήν τε ἀσπίδα Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ τὴν δεξιὰν ἐπωμίδα διήλασε διὰ τοῦ θώρακοσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 19 10:2)

Synonyms

  1. a javelin

Related

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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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