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σίφων

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σίφων σίφωνος

Structure: σιφων (Stem)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a tube, pipe, siphon, a service-pipe for water in houses

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

  • Ὀξυβόαι κώνωπεσ, ἀναιδέεσ, αἵματοσ ἀνδρῶν σίφωνεσ, νυκτὸσ κνώδαλα διπτέρυγα, βαιὸν Ζηνοφίλαν, λίτομαι, πάρεθ’ ἥσυχον ὕπνον εὕδειν, τἀμὰ δ’ ἰδοὺ σαρκοφαγεῖτε μέλη, καίτοι πρὸσ τί μάτην αὐδῶ; (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1511)
  • τοσοῦτον δ’ ἐστὶ τὸ εἰσαγώγιμον ὕδωρ διὰ τῶν ὑδραγωγίων, ὥστε ποταμοὺσ διὰ τῆσ πόλεωσ καὶ τῶν ὑπονόμων ῥεῖν, ἅπασαν δὲ οἰκίαν σχεδὸν δεξαμενὰσ καὶ σίφωνασ καὶ κρουνοὺσ ἔχειν ἀφθόνουσ, ὧν πλείστην ἐπιμέλειαν ἐποιήσατο Μάρκοσ Ἀγρίππασ, πολλοῖσ καὶ ἄλλοισ ἀναθήμασι κοσμήσασ τὴν πόλιν. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 3 16:5)

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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