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σφενδόνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφενδόνη

Structure: σφενδον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a sling, throw, as from a sling
  2. the hoop, in which the stone was set, the broader part round the stone, pala annuli
  3. the stone or bullet of the sling

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

  • Καὶ ἐκραταίωσε Δαυὶδ ὑπὲρ τὸν ἀλλόφυλον ἐν τῇ σφενδόνῃ καὶ ἐν τῷ λίθῳ, καὶ ἐπάταξε τὸν ἀλλόφυλον καὶ ἐθανάτωσεν αὐτόν. καὶ ρομφαία οὐκ ἦν ἐν χειρὶ Δαυίδ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 17:54)
  • ἰδοὺ γὰρ Ἀσσύριοι ἐπληθύνθησαν ἐν δυνάμει αὐτῶν, ὑψώθησαν ἐφ̓ ἵππῳ καὶ ἀναβάτῃ ἐγαυρίασαν ἐν βραχίονι πεζῶν, ἤλπισαν ἐν ἀσπίδι καὶ ἐν γαισῷ καὶ τόξῳ καὶ σφενδόνῃ καὶ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν ὅτι σὺ εἶ Κύριοσ συντρίβων πολέμουσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 9:7)
  • ὃσ ἀποδεσμεύει λίθον ἐν σφενδόνῃ, ὅμοιόσ ἐστι τῷ διδόντι ἄφρονι δόξαν. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 26:8)
  • ἔτι δὲ θαυμάσειεν ἄν τισ καὶ τῆσ ὀροφῆσ ἐν τῷ εὐμόρφῳ τὸ ἀπέριττον κἀν τῷ εὐκόσμῳ τὸ ἀνεπίληπτον καὶ τὸ τοῦ χρυσοῦ ἐσ τὸ εὐπρεπὲσ σύμμετρον, ἀλλὰ μὴ παρὰ τὰσ χρείασ ἐπίφθονον, ἀλλ’ ὁπόσον ἂν καὶ γυναικὶ σώφρονι καὶ καλῇ ἀρκέσῃ ἐπισημότερον ἐργάσασθαι τὸ κάλλοσ, ἢ περὶ τῇ δειρῇ λεπτόσ τισ ὁρ́μοσ ἢ περὶ τῷ δακτύλῳ σφενδόνη εὔφοροσ ἢ ἐν τοῖν ὤτοιν ἐλλόβια ἢ πόρπη τισ ἢ ταινία τὸ ἄφετον τῆσ κόμησ συνδέουσα, τοσοῦτον τῇ εὐμορφίᾳ προστιθεῖσα ὅσον τῇ ἐσθῆτι ἡ πορφύρα· (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 7:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐγὼ μὲν σφενδόνῃ οὐκ ἂν ἐφικοίμην αὐτόσ1’. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 4 3:11)

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

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