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σπεῖρα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπεῖρα

Structure: σπειρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. coiled, the coils or spires, folds
  2. thongs or straps, bound round, caestus
  3. a body of men-at-arms, manipulus, =, a cohort

Declension

First 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

  • ἀλλ’ ὅστισ ἰδὼν ὅσα δεινὰ καὶ δυσχερῆ καὶ ὅτι μεστὰ πάντα πολεμίων καὶ ἐχθρῶν, ὅπου τρυφὴ καὶ ἀπάτη δυναστεύουσιν, αὐτόν μιν πληγῇσιν ἀεικελίῃσι δαμάσσασ, σπεῖρα κάκ’ ἀμφ’ ὤμοισι βαλών, οἰκῆι ἐοικώσ, ἀνδρῶν θρυπτομένων κατέδυ πόλιν εὐρυάγυιαν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 19:1)
  • αὐτόν μιν πληγῇσιν ἀεικελίῃσι δαμάσσασ, σπεῖρα κάκ’ ἀμφ’ ὤμοισι βαλών, οἰκῆι ἐοικώσ, ἀνδρῶν δυσμενέων κατέδυ πόλιν εὐρυάγυιαν· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 4 27:8)
  • ἔνθα δὲ νηῶν ὅπλα μελαινάων ἀλέγουσι, πείσματα καὶ σπεῖρα, καὶ ἀποξύνουσιν ἐρετμά. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 6 25:11)
  • καὶ σπεῖρα Ῥωμαίων ἐφύλασσεν αὐτοὺσ ἐπὶ τῶν πυλῶν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 2:5)
  • οἷσ προσπίπτουσιν οἱ βάρβαροι νυκτὸσ τετάρτησ, καὶ ἐξέλιπεν ἡ σπεῖρα τὰσ πύλασ ὑπὸ δέουσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 2:6)
  • καὶ παρελθὼν ὁ Σίκκιοσ τά τε ἄλλα κατηγόρει τοῦ ἀνδρόσ, ὅσα ὑπατεύων βίᾳ εἰσ τοὺσ δημάρχουσ ἔδοξε διαπράξασθαι, καὶ τελευτῶν τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν διεξῄει τὴν ἐφ’ ἑαυτῷ τε καὶ τῇ σπείρᾳ γενομένην ὑπὸ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 49 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. coiled

  2. thongs or straps

  3. a body of men-at-arms

Related

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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