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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

  • ὅμωσ δ’ ἐάν τι πολλὰ πολλάκισ πάθω ὑπὸ τοῖνδε τοῖν κασαλβάδοιν δεῦρ’ ἐσπλέων, θάψαι μ’ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ τῷ στόματι τῆσ ἐσβολῆσ, καὶ τήνδ’ ἄνωθεν ἐπιπολῆσ τοῦ σήματοσ ζῶσαν καταπιττώσαντεσ εἶτα τὼ πόδε μολυβδοχοήσαντεσ κύκλῳ περὶ τὰ σφυρὰ ἄνω ’πιθεῖναι πρόφασιν ἀντὶ ληκύθου. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 2 4:29)
  • "ὄρυξαι βόθυνον πρὸσ ἑσπέραν τοῦ σήματοσ, ἔπειτα στὰσ παρὰ τὸν βόθυνον πρὸσ ἑσπέραν βλέπε, ὕδωρ κατάχεε λέγων τάδε· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 78 1:2)
  • "μνημονεύει δ’ αὐτῶν Ἀγαθοκλῆσ ὁ Κυζικηνὸσ ἐν γ’ τῶν περὶ τῆσ πατρίδοσ λέγων οὕτωσ κεραυνοῦ δὲ σκήψαντοσ εἰσ τὸν τάφον ἀνεβλάστησεν ἐκ τοῦ σήματοσ δενδρίον, ὃ ἐκεῖνοι κόνναρον ἐπονομάζουσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 623)
  • κρύψαντεσ δὲ τῇ γῇ τὰ λείψανα τοῦ Ὄθωνοσ οὔτε μεγέθει σήματοσ οὔτ’ ἐπιγραφῆσ ὄγκῳ τὸν τάφον ἐποίησαν ἐπίφθονον. (Plutarch, Otho, chapter 18 1:2)
  • εἰκὸσ δὲ πράξειν ἄνδρασ ὧδ’ ἀντιστάτασ, Ὑπερβίῳ τε πρὸσ λόγον τοῦ σήματοσ σωτὴρ γένοιτ’ ἂν Ζεὺσ ἐπ’ ἀσπίδοσ τυχών. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 2 1:16)

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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