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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

  • γίνεται δὲ καὶ τριῶν σπιθαμῶν, τὸ δὲ χρῶμά ἐστιν ὑπέρυθροσ καὶ τῶν ὀδόντων τὸν μὲν κάτω ἐλάττονα ἔχει, τὸν δὲ ἄνω μείζονα, ἄμφω δὲ μέλανασ καὶ ὁμοίουσ ῥύγχει ἱέρακοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 130 1:6)
  • ἰητρὸσ Καπίτων Χρύσην ἐνέχρισεν, ὁρῶντα ὀκτὼ μὲν μακρὸν πύργον ἀπὸ σταδίων, ἄνδρα δ’ ἀπὸ σταδίου, διὰ δώδεκα δ’ ὄρτυγα πηχῶν, φθεῖρα δ’ ἀπὸ σπιθαμῶν καὶ δύο δερκόμενον. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 1171)
  • σπιθαμῶν τὸ εὖροσ δύο, τὸ δὲ ὕψοσ ἐφαίνετο εἶναι σπιθαμῆσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 39 16:3)
  • μῆκοσ μὲν ἦν αὐτῇ πέντε σπιθαμῶν, τὸ δ’ εὖροσ καὶ τὸ βάθοσ τριῶν σπιθαμῶν εἰσ ἑκάτερον· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 169:1)

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

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