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σφήν

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφήν σφηνός

Structure: σφην (Stem)

Sense

  1. a wedge, an instrument of torture

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

  • ἐφ’ ὃν δήσαντεσ αὐτὸν ἐπὶ τὰ γόνατα καὶ ταῦτα ποδάγραισ σιδηραῖσ ἐφαρμόσαντεσ τὴν ὀσφὺν αὐτοῦ περὶ τροχιαῖον σφῆνα κατέκαμψαν, περὶ ὃν ὅλοσ περὶ τὸν τροχὸν σκορπίου τρόπον ἀνακλώμενοσ ἐξεμελίζετο. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 11:10)
  • καὶ δὴ καὶ τὴν προσεχῆ τούτῳ χώραν τῇ Λατίνῃ φωνῇ καλοῦσι Κούνεον, σφῆνα σημαίνειν βουλόμενοι. (Strabo, Geography, book 3, chapter 1 8:5)

Synonyms

  1. a wedge

Related

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

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