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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

  • ὁ δὲ Ἰάσων ἐποιεῖτο σφαγὰσ τῶν πολιτῶν τῶν ἰδίων ἀφειδῶσ, οὐ συννοῶν τὴν εἰσ τοὺσ συγγενεῖσ εὐημερίαν δυσημερίαν εἶναι τὴν μεγίστην. δοκῶν δὲ πολεμίων καὶ οὐχ ὁμοεθνῶν τρόπαια καταβάλλεσθαι, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 5:6)
  • καταλαβόμενοί τε τὴν πόλιν τῇ τοῦ Θεοῦ θελήσει, ἀμυθήτουσ ἐποιήσαντο σφαγάσ, ὥστε τὴν παρακειμένην λίμνην, τὸ πλάτοσ ἔχουσαν σταδίων δύο, κατάρρυτον αἵματι πεπληρωμένην φαίνεσθαι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 12:16)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἂν φαίησ ἐπέραστόν τι ζῷον τουτὶ γενέσθαι, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑβριστότατον, εἰ χρὴ πιστεύειν τοῖσ ζωγραφοισ ἐπιδεικνυμένοισ τὰσ παροινίασ καὶ σφαγὰσ αὐτων. (Lucian, Prometheus es in verbis 12:3)
  • τὰσ δ’ Ἕκτοροσ εὐνὰσ ἐάσον καὶ καρατόμουσ σφαγάσ· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:5)
  • ἀλλ’ ᾧπερ ἥκεισ μορσίμουσ φέρων σφαγάσ, τάχυν’· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode 1:27)

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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