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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

  • ἐπιτυχεῖν γὰρ αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ Κροτωνιάτιδι αὐαινομένῳ ξύλῳ, σφῆνεσ δὲ ἐγκείμενοι διίστασαν τὸ ξύλον· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 14 13:2)
  • ὁ δὲ ὑπὸ φρονήματοσ ὁ Μίλων καθίησι τὰσ χεῖρασ ἐσ τὸ ξύλον, ὀλισθάνουσί τε δὴ οἱ σφῆνεσ καὶ ἐχόμενοσ ὁ Μίλων ὑπὸ τοῦ ξύλου λύκοισ ἐγίνετο εὑρ́ημα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 14 13:3)

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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