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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 ἔλαβε τὴν βακτηρίαν αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐξελέξατο ἑαυτῷ πέντε λίθουσ λείουσ ἐκ τοῦ χειμάρρου καὶ ἔθετο αὐτοὺσ ἐν τῷ καδίῳ τῷ ποιμαινικῷ τῷ ὄντι αὐτῷ εἰσ συλλογὴ καὶ σφενδόνην αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ προσῆλθε πρὸσ τὸν ἄνδρα τὸν ἀλλόφυλον. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 17:20)
  • τόξευε παῖε, σφενδόνην τίσ μοι δότω. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene 1:31)
  • Ἢν μὲν οὖν κατακέεσθαι τολμᾷ, ἀντιστήριγμά τι προστιθέναι χρὴ, ὡσ ἂν ὁ ὦμοσ ἀνωτάτω ἐῄ‧ ἢν δὲ περιίῃ, σφενδόνην χρὴ, ἐκ ταινίησ περὶ τὸ ὀξὺ τοῦ ἀγκῶνοσ ποιήσαντα, ἀναλαμβάνειν περὶ τὸν αὐχένα. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 16.5)
  • καθήμενον οὖν μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων τυχεῖν τὴν σφενδόνην τοῦ δακτυλίου περιαγαγόντα πρὸσ ἑαυτὸν εἰσ τὸ εἴσω τῆσ χειρόσ, τούτου δὲ γενομένου ἀφανῆ αὐτὸν γενέσθαι τοῖσ παρακαθημένοισ, καὶ διαλέγεσθαι ὡσ περὶ οἰχομένου. (Plato, Republic, book 2 34:2)
  • καὶ τὸν θαυμάζειν τε καὶ πάλιν ἐπιψηλαφῶντα τὸν δακτύλιον στρέψαι ἔξω τὴν σφενδόνην, καὶ στρέψαντα φανερὸν γενέσθαι. (Plato, Republic, book 2 36:1)

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

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