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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

  • 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)
  • 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)

Synonyms

  1. a piece of cloth

Related

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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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