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σφῦρα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφῦρα

Structure: σφυρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a hammer
  2. a beetle, mallet

Declension

First 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

  • Σώστρατοσ δ’ ἐν δευτέρῳ περὶ ζῴων τὴν πηλαμύδα θυννίδα καλεῖσθαι λέγει, μείζω δὲ γινομένην θύννον, ἔτι δὲ μείζονα ὄρκυνον, ὑπερβαλλόντωσ δὲ αὐξανόμενον γίνεσθαι κῆτοσ, μνημονεύει δὲ τοῦ θύννου καὶ Αἰσχύλοσ λέγων σφύρασ δέχεσθαι κἀπιχαλκεύειν μύδρουσ ὡσ ἀστενακτὶ θύννοσ ὣσ ἠνείχετο ἄναυδοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 663)
  • ἦν δὲ χαλκεῖον, καὶ δηλοῖ τὰσ φύσασ, τύπον δὲ τὸν ἄκμονά φησι καὶ τὰσ σφύρασ, πῆμα δὲ ἐπὶ πήματι τὸν σίδηρον ἐπὶ σιδήρῳ· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, fragmenta libri ix, chapter 35 12:5)
  • ἐκπεσοῦσαν δὲ ἐκ τοῦ ἀρότρου τὴν ὕνιν πρὸσ τὸ ἄροτρον καθήρμοσε τῇ χειρὶ ἀντὶ σφύρασ χρώμενοσ, καί πωσ ἐθεάσατο ὁ Δημύλοσ τὸ ὑπὸ τοῦ παιδὸσ ποιούμενον καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ πυκτεύσοντα ἐσ Ὀλυμπίαν αὐτὸν ἀνήγαγεν. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 10 2:4)
  • ἡ δ’ ὅλη τοῦ ναοῦ οἰκοδομία κατὰ πολλὴν τέχνην ἐκ λίθων ἀκροτόμων ἐγένετο συντεθέντων ἁρμονίωσ πάνυ καὶ λείωσ, ὡσ μήτε σφύρασ μήτε ἄλλου τινὸσ ἐργαλείου τεκτονικοῦ τοῖσ κατανοοῦσιν ἐργασίαν δηλοῦσθαι, ἀλλὰ δίχα τῆσ τούτων χρήσεωσ πᾶσαν ἡρμόσθαι τὴν ὕλην προσφυῶσ, ὡσ ἑκούσιον τὴν ἁρμονίαν αὐτῆσ δοκεῖν μᾶλλον ἢ τῆσ τῶν ἐργαλείων ἀνάγκησ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 88:1)

Synonyms

  1. a hammer

  2. a beetle

Related

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

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