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σπεῖρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπεῖρον σπεῖρου

Structure: σπειρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. a piece of cloth, cloth, wraps, shroud, a sail

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σπεῖρον σπείρω σπεῖρα
Genitive σπείρου σπείροιν σπείρων
Dative σπείρῳ σπείροιν σπείροις
Accusative σπεῖρον σπείρω σπεῖρα
Vocative σπεῖρον σπείρω σπεῖρα

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

  • οὐκ ἀκούεισ τοῦ Ταντάλου λέγοντοσ ἐν τῇ τραγῳδίᾳ σπείρω δ’ ἄρουραν δώδεχ’ ἡμερῶν ὁδόν, Βερέκυντα χῶρον εἶτα μετ’ ὀλίγον λέγοντοσ οὑμὸσ δὲ πότμοσ οὐρανῷ κυρῶν ἄνω, ἔραζε πίπτει, καί με προσφωνεῖ τάδε· (Plutarch, De exilio, section 10 2:2)
  • σπείρω δ’ ἄρουραν δώδεχ’ ἡμερῶν ὁδὸν Βερέκυντα χῶρον οὗτοσ εἰ μὴ μόνον φιλογέωργοσ ἀλλὰ καὶ φιλάνθρωποσ ἦν, ἣδιον ἂν ἔσπειρε τὴν τοσούτουσ τρέφειν δυναμένην ἢ τὸ Ἀντισθένουσ ἐκεῖνο χωρίδιον, ὃ μόλισ Αὐτολύκῳ παλαίειν ἂν ἢρκεσε· (Plutarch, Maxime cum principbus philosopho esse diserendum, chapter, section 31)
  • καὶ ὁ Τάνταλοσ λέγει σπείρω δ’ ἄρουραν δώδεχ’ ἡμερῶν ὁδόν, Βερέκυντα χῶρον, ἔνθ’ Ἀδραστείασ ἕδοσ Ἴδη τε μυκηθμοῖσι καὶ βρυχήμασι βρέμουσι μήλων, πᾶν τ’ ἐρέχθειον πέδον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 8 33:7)

Synonyms

  1. a piece of cloth

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

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