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σφαγίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφαγίς σφαγίδος

Structure: σφαγιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: sfa/zw

Sense

  1. a sacrificial knife

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐκ κανοῦ δ’ ἑλὼν Αἴγισθοσ ὀρθὴν σφαγίδα, μοσχείαν τρίχα τεμὼν ἐφ’ ἁγνὸν πῦρ ἔθηκε δεξιᾷ, κἄσφαξ’ ἐπ’ ὤμων μόσχον ὡσ ἦραν χεροῖν δμῶεσ, λέγει δὲ σῷ κασιγνήτῳ τάδε· (Euripides, episode 2:8)
  • κραυγῆσ δὲ γενομένησ ᾑμαγμένην ἔχων τὴν σφαγίδα καὶ αὐτὸσ ἀνάμεστοσ αἵματοσ γενόμενοσ, ᾧ προσέφυρεν αὐτὸν ἡ σφαγὴ τῆσ κόρησ, ἔθει διὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἐμμανὴσ ἐπὶ τὴν ἐλευθερίαν τοὺσ πολίτασ καλῶν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 37 9:2)
  • Οὐεργίνιοσ δ’, ὃν ἔφην αὐτόχειρα γενέσθαι τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ θυγατρόσ, ἀπὸ ῥυτῆροσ ἐλαύνων τὸν ἵππον ἀφικνεῖται περὶ λύχνων ἁφὰσ ἐπὶ τὸν πρὸσ Ἀλγιδῷ χάρακα, τοιοῦτοσ οἱο͂σ ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἐξέδραμεν, αἵματι πεφυρμένοσ ἅπασ καὶ τὴν μαγειρικὴν σφαγίδα διὰ χειρὸσ ἔχων. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 11, chapter 40 1:2)

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

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