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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σφῦρα σφύρᾱ σφύραι
Genitive σφύρᾱς σφύραιν σφυρῶν
Dative σφύρᾱͅ σφύραιν σφύραις
Accusative σφύρᾱν σφύρᾱ σφύρᾱς
Vocative σφύρᾱ σφύρᾱ σφύραι

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

  • καὶ σπείρασ, βρέφοσ γνοὺσ τἀμπλάκημα τοῦ θεοῦ τε τὴν φάτιν, λειμῶν’ ἐσ Ἥρασ καὶ Κιθαιρῶνοσ λέπασ δίδωσι βουκόλοισιν ἐκθεῖναι βρέφοσ, σφυρῶν σιδηρᾶ κέντρα διαπείρασ μέσον· (Euripides, Phoenissae, episode 1:11)
  • Σαπφὼ περὶ Ἀνδρομέδασ σκώπτει τίσ δ’ ἀγροιῶτισ θέλγει νόον οὐκ ἐπισταμένη τὰ βράκε’ ἕλκειν ἐπὶ τῶν σφυρῶν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 38 1:4)
  • "χιτῶσι δὲ χρῶνται μεσολεύκοισ καὶ περιέζωνται ταραντῖνον καλύπτον αὐτοὺσ μέχρι τῶν σφυρῶν, σιγῇ δὲ διὰ τοῦ πυλῶνοσ εἰσελθόντεσ, ὅταν κατὰ μέσην τὴν ὀρχήστραν γένωνται, ἐπιστρέφουσιν εἰσ τὸ θέατρον λέγοντεσ ἀνάγετ’, ἀνάγετ’, εὐρυχωρίαν ποιεῖτε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 163)
  • μίαν δέ φασιν ἓξ ἄκρου ῥυμοῦ κρεμαμένην τὰ παιδία τῶν αὑτῆσ σφυρῶν ἀφημμένα βρόχοισ ἐκατέρωθεν ἠρτῆσθαι· (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 27 2:2)
  • δράξασθαί τινοσ μαχαιρίου καὶ αὑτὸν ἀνατεμεῖν ἀπὸ τῶν σφυρῶν ἑώσ ἐπὶ τοὺσ καιρίουσ τόπουσ, καὶ οὕτωσ ἐκλιπεῖν τὸν βίον γελῶντα καὶ σεσηρότα. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 4 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a hammer

  2. a beetle

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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