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σέλμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σέλμα σέλματος

Structure: σελματ (Stem)

Etym.: seli/s

Sense

  1. the deck of a ship
  2. rowing-benches
  3. a seat, throne
  4. scaffolds behind the parapet
  5. logs of building timber

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

  • τίσ τόδε σέλμα πέλωρον ἐπὶ χθονὸσ εἵσατο; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 44 2:1)
  • Σικελίασ σκαπτοῦχοσ ὁ Δωρικόσ, ἀλλά, Πόσειδον, σῷζε κατὰ,4 γλαυκῶν σέλμα τόδε ῥοθίων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 44 4:1)
  • δαιμόνων δέ που χάρισ βίαιοσ σέλμα σεμνὸν ἡμένων. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 3 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. the deck of a ship

  2. rowing-benches

  3. a seat

Related

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

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