Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • εἰσ Νικόλαον Πατριάρχην Ἀλεξανδρείασ ὃσ βασιλεῖσ ἐδάμασσε, καὶ ἠνορέην κατέπαυσεν ἀντιπάλων, πατέρων εἵνεκεν εὐνομίησ, οὗτοσ ὑπὸ σμικρῷ κατάκειται σήματι τῷδε, ἀρχιερεὺσ Χριστοῦ Νικόλεωσ γεγαώσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 211)
  • Χαλκέη παρθένοσ εἰμί, Μίδεω δ’ ἐπὶ σήματι κεῖμαι· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 8)
  • ὁ τραγικὸν φώνημα καὶ ὀφρυόεσσαν ἀοιδὴν πυργώσασ στιβαρῇ πρῶτοσ ἐν εὐεπίῃ, Αἰσχύλοσ Εὐφορίωνοσ, Ἐλευσινίησ ἑκὰσ αἰήσ κεῖται, κυδαίνων σήματι Τρινακρίην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 391)
  • χαλκῆ παρθένοσ εἰμί, Μίδα δ’ ἐπὶ σήματι κεῖμαι. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 1531)
  • σήματι δ’ ὑμέων ὤφελεν ἱδρῦσθαι βωμὸσ Ὁμοφροσύνησ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 551 1:3)

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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