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σφαγή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφαγή

Structure: σφαγ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: sfa/zw

Sense

  1. slaughter, butchery, the gaping wound
  2. the throat

Declension

First 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

  • ἐγίνοντο δὲ νέων καὶ πρεσβυτέρων ἀναιρέσεισ, ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν καὶ τέκνων ἀφανισμόσ, παρθένων τε καὶ νηπίων σφαγαί. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 5:13)
  • σφαγαὶ δ’ ἀμφιβώμιοι Φρυγῶν, ἔν τε δεμνίοισ καράτομοσ ἐρημία νεανίδων στέφανον ἔφερεν Ἑλλάδι κουροτρόφον, Φρυγῶν πατρίδι πένθη. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, epode5)
  • ἐκείνῳ αἱ παρθένοι ἀνήγοντο, καὶ εἴ τινεσ σφαγαὶ καὶ εἴ τινεσ καὶ χρημάτων ἀφαιρέσεισ καὶ βάσανοι καὶ ὕβρεισ, πάντα ταῦτα τολμήματα ἦν νεανικά. (Lucian, Tyrannicida, (no name) 5:3)
  • σφαγαὶ δ’ ἔχουσιν εὐγενέσ τι καὶ καλόν, σμικρὸν δ’ ὁ καιρὸσ σάρκ’ ἀπαλλάξαι βίου. (Euripides, Helen, episode 4:8)
  • ἀλλ’ οὗ καρανιστῆρεσ ὀφθαλμωρύχοι δίκαι σφαγαί τε σπέρματόσ τ’ ἀποφθορᾷ παίδων κακοῦται χλοῦνισ, ἠδ’ ἀκρωνία, λευσμόσ τε, καὶ μύζουσιν οἰκτισμὸν πολὺν ὑπὸ ῥάχιν παγέντεσ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode3)

Synonyms

  1. the throat

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

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