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σκαλμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκαλμός σκαλμοῦ

Structure: σκαλμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the pin or thole

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

  • καὶ τῇσι κώπῃσιν οὐ κατὰ σκαλμὸν ἤρεσσον ὡσ ὁ Ἑλλήνων νόμοσ, ἀλλὰ τὸ ὕδωρ ἀναβάλλοντεσ ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν, κατάπερ οἱ σκάπτοντεσ τὴν γῆν. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 27 5:2)
  • οἱ δ’ οὐκ ἀκόσμωσ, ἀλλὰ πειθάρχῳ φρενὶ δεῖπνόν τ’ ἐπορσύνοντο, ναυβάτησ τ’ ἀνὴρ τροποῦτο κώπην σκαλμὸν ἀμφ’ εὐήρετμον. (Aeschylus, Persians, episode 2:7)
  • ὑποπεσούσησ γὰρ αὐτῇ τριημιολίασ, ταύτῃ δοῦσα πληγὴν βιαίαν κατὰ μέσον τὸ κύτοσ ὑπὸ τὸν θρανίτην σκαλμὸν ἐδέθη, τοῦ κυβερνήτου τὴν ὁρμὴν τῆσ νεὼσ οὐκέτι δυνηθέντοσ ἀναλαβεῖν· (Polybius, Histories, book 16, chapter 3 4:1)

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

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