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σαυρωτήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σαυρωτήρ σαυρωτῆρος

Structure: σαυρωτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a spike at the butt-end

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

  • τὸν γοῦν Διομήδην πάνυ στερεῶσ κατέκλινεν ἐπὶ βύρσησ ἀγραύλου βοόσ, κύκλῳ περιστήσασ τὰ δόρατα ὀρθὰ ἐπὶ σαυρωτῆροσ, οὐ κόσμου χάριν, ἀλλ’ ἕτοιμα λαβεῖν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 56:1)
  • ἔγχεα δέ σφιν ὄρθ’ ἐπὶ σαυρωτῆροσ ἐλήλατο, τῆλε δὲ χαλκὸσ λάμφ’ ὥσ τε στεροπὴ πατρὸσ Διόσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 10 17:5)
  • ἐν ᾗ τῶν μὲν δοράτων τὴν πρώτην εὐθέωσ τῆσ ἐπιδορατίδοσ πληγὴν εὔστοχον ἅμα καὶ πρακτικὴν γίνεσθαι συμβαίνει, διὰ τὴν κατασκευὴν ἀτρεμοῦσ καὶ στασίμου τοῦ δόρατοσ ὑπάρχοντοσ, ὁμοίωσ δὲ καὶ τὴν ἐκ μεταλήψεωσ τοῦ σαυρωτῆροσ χρείαν μόνιμον καὶ βίαιον. (Polybius, Histories, book 6, chapter 25 9:1)

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

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