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σπορά

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σπορά

Structure: σπορ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: spei/rw

Sense

  1. a sowing, origin, birth
  2. seed-time
  3. the seed sown, seed, offspring, race

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

  • γυναῖκεσ, Ἑκάβη ποῦ ποθ’ ἡ παναθλία, ἡ πάντα νικῶσ’ ἄνδρα καὶ θῆλυν σπορὰν κακοῖσιν; (Euripides, Hecuba, episode1)
  • θεῷ γὰρ ἡ τεκοῦσα μειχθῆναι λέγεται, καὶ καθάπερ τὸν Ἡρακλέα σπαρῆναί φασιν ἐν μακρᾷ νυκτί, τῆσ ἡμέρασ ἐπισχεθείσησ παρὰ φύσιν καὶ τοῦ ἡλίου βραδύναντοσ, οὕτω περὶ τὴν Ῥωμύλου σπορὰν καὶ καταβολὴν τὸν ἥλιον ἐκλιπεῖν ἱστοροῦσι, ποιησάμενον ἀτρεκῆ σύνοδον πρὸσ σελήνην, ᾧπερ ὁ Ἄρησ θεὸσ ὢν τῇ Σιλβίᾳ θνητῇ συνῆλθε. (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 8 1:2)
  • τοιοῦτοσ ὢν τοιῷδ’ ὀνειδίζεισ σποράν; (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 2:5)
  • οὔκουν σὺ ταύτην, ἣν ὑπ’ ἀγνοίασ ὁρᾷσ, Ιὄλην ἔφασκεσ Εὐρύτου σπορὰν ἄγειν; (Sophocles, Trachiniae, choral 9:32)
  • ἔτυχε δὲ τηνικαῦτα ὁ Κοίντιοσ ἄρουράν τινα ὑπεργαζόμενοσ εἰσ σποράν, αὐτὸσ ἀκολουθῶν τοῖσ σχίζουσι τὴν νειὸν βοιδίοισ ἀχίτων, περιζωμάτιον ἔχων καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ κεφαλῇ πῖλον. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 10, chapter 17 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. a sowing

  2. seed-time

Related

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

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