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σῆμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σῆμα σήματος

Structure: σηματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. mark, sign, token
  2. a sign from the gods, an omen, portent
  3. a sign to begin something, watchword, signal, banner
  4. the sign by which a grave is known, mound, cairn, barrow
  5. a mark to show the case of a quoit or javelin
  6. a token by which one's identity or commission was certified
  7. a constellation

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

  • κὰδ δ’ ἄρ’ ἀπ’ οὐρανόθεν ψιάδασ βάλεν αἱματοέσσασ, σῆμα τιθεὶσ πολέμοιο ἑῷ μεγαθαρσέι παιδί. (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 35:10)
  • καίπερ γὰρ λέγων ὅτι παντὶ τῷ πολέμῳ παρεγένετο, καὶ πάντα δηλώσειν ὑποσχόμενοσ, εἰσ τὴν ναυμαχίαν τελευτᾷ τὴν περὶ Κυνὸσ σῆμα γεγενημένην Ἀθηναίων καὶ Πελοποννησίων, ἣ συνέβη κατὰ ἔτοσ εἰκοστὸν καὶ δεύτερον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 3 10:2)
  • σῆμα δὲ τῆσ ἱστορίησ τόδε πρήσσουσιν. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 13:6)
  • τί τὸ σῆμα; (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, anapests9)
  • καὶ τί δὴ τὸ σῆμα; (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, trochees16)

Synonyms

  1. mark

  2. a sign from the gods

  3. the sign by which a grave is known

  4. a constellation

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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