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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

  • κἀνταῦθ’ ὁρῶμεν Ἑλλάδοσ νεὼσ σκάφοσ ταρσῷ κατήρει πίτυλον ἐπτερωμένον, ναύτασ τε πεντήκοντ’ ἐπὶ σκαλμῶν πλάτασ ἔχοντασ, ἐκ δεσμῶν δὲ τοὺσ νεανίασ ἐλευθέρουσ πρύμνηθεν ἑστῶτασ νεώσ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 3:1)
  • Οὐκ εἶ’ ὃ μέν τισ λοῖσθον ἀρεῖται δόρυ, ὃ δὲ ζύγ’ ἄξασ, ὃ δ’ ἀφελὼν σκαλμοῦ πλάτην καθαιματώσει κρᾶτα πολεμίων ξένων; (Euripides, Helen, episode 5:16)
  • 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)
  • πάντεσ δὲ σκαλμοὶ στεφάνουσ ἔχον· (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 5:9)

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

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