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σπιθαμή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπιθαμή

Structure: σπιθαμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. the space one can span with the thumb and little finger, a span, inches

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

  • βοτάνη μέν ἐστιν ὑπὲρ τρεῖσ σπιθαμὰσ πολλάκισ αὐξανομένη τὸ ὕψοσ, τὴν δὲ ῥίζαν ἐμφερὴσ βουνιάδι, ταύτῃ γὰρ οὐκ ἂν ἁμάρτοι τισ εἰκάζων αὐτήν, τὰ δὲ φύλλα τοῖσ εὐζώμων· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 218:1)

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

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