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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

  • Ξύνεστι μὲν αὐτέοισι, ἀθρόον μὲν εἰρῆσθαι, ἅπασι πόνοσ καὶ ἔντασισ τενόντων καὶ Ῥάχεοσ, καὶ μυῶν τῶν ἐν γνάθοισι καὶ θώρηκι, ἐρείδουσι γὰρ τὴν κάτω γένυν πρὸσ τὴν ἄνω, ὡσ μηδὲ μοχλοῖσιν ἢ σφηνὶ διὰ Ῥηϊδίωσ στῆσαι δύνασθα ι. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 36)

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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