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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

  • καὶ τούτων χίλιοι μὲν ἐπὶ τοῖσι δόρασι ἀντὶ τῶν σαυρωτήρων ῥοιὰσ εἶχον χρυσέασ καὶ πέριξ συνεκλήιον τοὺσ ἄλλουσ, οἱ δὲ εἰνακισχίλιοι ἐντὸσ τούτων ἐόντεσ ἀργυρέασ ῥοιὰσ εἶχον· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 41 3:1)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ ἄνευ σαυρωτήρων κατασκευάζοντεσ μιᾷ τῇ πρώτῃ διὰ τῆσ ἐπιδορατίδοσ ἐχρῶντο πληγῇ, μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα κλασθέντων λοιπὸν ἦν ἄπρακτ’ αὐτοῖσ καὶ μάταια. (Polybius, Histories, book 6, chapter 25 6:1)

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

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