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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σέλμα σέλματε σέλματα
Genitive σέλματος σελμάτοιν σελμάτων
Dative σέλματι σελμάτοιν σέλμασιν*
Accusative σέλμα σέλματε σέλματα
Vocative σέλμα σέλματε σέλματα

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

  • αὐτὰρ ὁ ποντοπόρων Ἑλένην ἐπὶ σέλματα νηῶν ἐκ θαλάμων ἐκόμισσε φιλοξείνου Μενελάου, κυδιόων δ’ ὑπέροπλον ὑποσχεσίῃ Κυθερείησ φόρτον ἄγων ἔσπευδεν ἐσ Ἴλιον ἰωχμοῖο. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 1159)
  • οἳ δ’ ἐσ κέλευσμ’ ἐλθόντεσ ἐξανήρπασαν ταῦρον φέροντέσ τ’ εἰσέθεντο σέλματα. (Euripides, Helen, episode 2:5)
  • δεξιότησ τε λόγου Φαίακοσ Μουσῶν ἐρέτασ ἐπὶ σέλματα πέμπει. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 8 1:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ἄγε σὺν κώθωνι θοῆσ διὰ σέλματα νηὸσ φοίτα καὶ κοίλων πώματ’ ἄφελκε κάδων, ἄγρει δ’ οἶνον ἐρυθρὸν ἀπὸ τρυγόσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 66 3:1)
  • οἱ δ’ ἀνὰ σέλματα βάντεσ ἐπισχερὼ ἀλλήλοισιν, ὡσ ἐδάσαντο πάροιθεν ἐρεσσέμεν ᾧ ἐνὶ χώρῳ, εὐκόσμωσ σφετέροισι παρ’ ἔντεσιν ἑδριόωντο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 10:9)

Synonyms

  1. the deck of a ship

  2. rowing-benches

  3. a seat

Related

Similar forms

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

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