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σπινθήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπινθήρ σπινθῆρος

Structure: σπινθηρ (Stem)

Sense

  1. a spark

Declension

Third 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

  • ὅμοια δὲ τούτοισ καὶ περὶ τῆσ Ἥρασ ᾄδουσιν, ἄνευ τῆσ πρὸσ τὸν ἄνδρα ὁμιλίασ ὑπηνέμιον αὐτὴν παῖδα γεννῆσαι τὸν Ἥφαιστον, οὐ μάλα εὐτυχῆ τοῦτον, ἀλλὰ βάναυσον καὶ χαλκέα καὶ πυρίτην, ἐν καπνῷ τὸ πᾶν βιοῦντα καὶ σπινθήρων ἀνάπλεων οἱᾶ δὴ καμινευτήν, καὶ οὐδὲ ἄρτιον τὼ πόδε· (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 6:1)
  • Οὔκ, ἀλλὰ τὸν Ἥφαιστον ἔδει τὸν σὸν υἱὸν οἰνοχοεῖν ἡμῖν χωλεύοντα, ἐκ τῆσ καμίνου ἥκοντα, ἔτι τῶν σπινθήρων ἀνάπλεων, ἄρτι τὴν πυράγραν ἀποτεθειμένον, καὶ ἀπ̓ ἐκείνων αὐτοῦ τῶν δακτύλων λαμβάνειν ἡμᾶσ τὴν κύλικα καὶ ἐπισπασαμένουσ γε φιλῆσαι μεταξύ, ὃν οὐδ̓ ἂν ἡ μήτηρ σὺ ἡδέωσ φιλήσειασ ὑπὸ τῆσ ἀσβόλου κατῃθαλωμένον τὸ πρόσωπον. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 7:3)
  • τοῦ αἰθέροσ σπινθήρων δίκην καταφέρεσθαι διὸ καὶ παραυτίκα σβέννυσθαι. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. a spark

Related

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

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