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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σφήν σφῆνε σφῆνες
Genitive σφηνός σφηνοῖν σφηνῶν
Dative σφηνί σφηνοῖν σφησίν*
Accusative σφῆνα σφῆνε σφῆνας
Vocative σφήν σφῆνε σφῆνες

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

  • οἱ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ σφῇσιν εἴτε ἀτασθαλίαισιν εἴτε ἀφροσύναισ χρὴ εἰπεῖν, ὑπὲρ μόρον ἄλγε’ ἔχουσι. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 28:3)
  • ἐξ ἡμέων γάρ φασι κάκ’ ἔμμεναι, οἱ δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ σφῇσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὑπὲρ μόρον ἄλγε’ ἔχουσιν, ὡσ καὶ νῦν Αἴγισθοσ ὑπὲρ μόρον Ἀτρεί̈δαο γῆμ’ ἄλοχον μνηστήν, τὸν δ’ ἔκτανε νοστήσαντα, εἰδὼσ αἰπὺν ὄλεθρον, ἐπεὶ πρό οἱ εἴπομεν ἡμεῖσ, Ἑρμείαν πέμψαντεσ, ἐύσκοπον ἀργεϊφόντην, μήτ’ αὐτὸν κτείνειν μήτε μνάασθαι ἄκοιτιν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 1 4:2)
  • εἴ περ γάρ τε καὶ αὐτίκ’ Ὀλύμπιοσ οὐκ ἐτέλεσσεν, ἔκ τε καὶ ὀψὲ τελεῖ, σύν τε μεγάλῳ ἀπέτισαν σὺν σφῇσιν κεφαλῇσι γυναιξί τε καὶ τεκέεσσιν. (Homer, Iliad, Book 4 15:7)

Synonyms

  1. a wedge

Related

Similar forms

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

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