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σφάγιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφάγιον σφάγιου

Structure: σφαγι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: sfa/zw

Sense

  1. a victim, offering
  2. slaughter, sacrifice

Declension

Second 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

  • θέμισ, οὐ μυσαραῖσ τοῖσδε σφαγίοισ. (Euripides, episode, anapests2)
  • οὔτε γὰρ ἐν τοῖσ ἰδίοισ οὔτ’ ἐν τοῖσ κοινοῖσ συλλόγοισ ὁμονοοῦντασ ὑπὲρ τοῦ πολέμου πάντασ Ἀλβανοὺσ ἑώρων, μακρῷ δέ τινι τῶν ἐξ ἀνθρωπίνου λογισμοῦ καταλαμβανομένων χαλεπῶν τὰ δαιμόνια σημεῖα, ὁπότε χρησαίμην σφαγίοισ περὶ μάχησ, χαλεπώτερα γινόμενα πολλὴν δυσθυμίαν παρεῖχέ μοι καὶ ἀμηχανίαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 7 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. a victim

  2. slaughter

Related

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

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