Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἀδαμαντίνου νῦν σφηνὸσ αὐθάδη γνάθον στέρνων διαμπὰξ πασσάλευ’ ἐρρωμένωσ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 5:3)

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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