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σφαγεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφαγεῖον σφαγεῖου

Structure: σφαγει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: sfa/zw

Sense

  1. a bowl for catching the blood of the victim
  2. the victim

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σφαγεῖον σφαγείω σφαγεῖα
Genitive σφαγείου σφαγείοιν σφαγείων
Dative σφαγείῳ σφαγείοιν σφαγείοις
Accusative σφαγεῖον σφαγείω σφαγεῖα
Vocative σφαγεῖον σφαγείω σφαγεῖα

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

  • δόσ μοι σφαγεῖον Μανία, ἵν’ οὖν τό γ’ αἷμα τοῦ τέκνου τοὐμοῦ λάβω. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Episode33)
  • οἳ μὲν σφαγεῖον ἔφερον, οἳ δ’ ᾖρον κανᾶ, ἄλλοι δὲ πῦρ ἀνῆπτον ἀμφί τ’ ἐσχάρασ λέβητασ ὤρθουν· (Euripides, episode 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a bowl for catching the blood of the victim

  2. the victim

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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