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σιτίον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σιτίον σιτίου

Structure: σιτι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: si=tos

Sense

  1. grain, corn: food made from grain, bread
  2. food, victuals, provisions, provision, meat
  3. maintenance
  4. food

Declension

Second 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

  • ἐὰν οἰκέτησ βασιλεύσῃ καὶ ἄφρων πλησθῇ σιτίων (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:58)
  • "οὐχ οὕτωσ ἄσποροσ οὐδὲ ἄκαρποσ ἡ τοῦ Πλούτωνοσ ἀρχή, οὐδὲ ἐπιλέλοιπεν ἡμᾶσ ὁ ἀσφόδελοσ, ἵνα παρ’ ὑμῶν τὰ σιτία μεταστελλώμεθα. (Lucian, (no name) 16:22)
  • καὶ ὅμωσ οἱ Γαράμαντεσ ἐπειδὰν τὰ σιτία καταναλώσωσιν ἅπερ ἔχοντεσ ἀφίκοντο, ἀπελαύνουσιν ὀπίσω εὐθὺσ δεδιότεσ μὴ σφίσιν ἡ ψάμμοσ ἀναφλεγεῖσα δύσβατοσ καὶ ἄποροσ γένηται, εἶτα ὥσπερ ἐντὸσ ἀρκύων ληφθέντεσ καὶ αὐτοὶ ἀπόλωνται μετὰ τῆσ ἄγρασ· (Lucian, Dipsades 3:3)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἑώρα τοὺσ ἑαυτοῦ ὑπὸ τὴν μάχην Σκριβωνίῳ προστιθεμένουσ ἀποσχόμενοσ σιτίων ἐτελεύτησεν βιοὺσ ἔτη τρία καὶ ἐνενήκοντα· (Lucian, Macrobii, (no name) 17:3)
  • καὶ δειπνοῦντι συνοῦσα ἅπτεται ἄλλοτε ἄλλῳ τοῖν ποδοῖν, ὑπομιμνήσκουσα ὅτι κἂν αὐτῇ ἄρα μεταδοτέον εἰή τῶν σιτίων. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 5 4:4)
  • κράτιστον γὰρ κυνὶ τοῦτο σιτίον, καὶ οὐ δέοσ μὴ ὑπερεμπλησθῇ ἀπ̓ αὐτοῦ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 8 2:2)
  • καὶ καμνούσῃ δὲ καὶ μαλθακιζομένῃ ἀγαθὸν καὶ πῶμα καὶ σιτίον, ἀγαθὴ δὲ καὶ ἀσιτία καμνούσῃ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 8 4:3)
  • καὶ τοῦτο σιτίον τε ἱκανὸν ἔσται αὐτῇ, καὶ ἀναψύξει τὸ ἄσθμα, καὶ ἀναπαύσει τὸ δῖψοσ. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 13 3:2)
  • αἷμα μὲν γὰρ καὶ φόνοσ καὶ σάρκεσ ἰκτίνῳ καὶ λύκῳ καὶ δράκοντι σιτίον οἰκεῖον, ἀνθρώπῳ δ’ ὄψον ἐστίν. (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 8 6:2)
  • "Σωκράτει, καὶ πῶσ εἰσ τὸ στόμα τὸ σιτίον οὐκ. (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 2 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. grain

  2. food

  3. food

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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