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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

  • ἐπὶ Σκίρῳ, τοῦ παλαιοτάτου τῶν σπόρων ὑπόμνημα, δεύτερον ἐν τῇ Ρ̓αρίᾳ, τρίτον ὑπὸ πόλιν τὸν καλούμενον Βουζύγιον. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 42 1:1)
  • οἱ αὐτοὶ νόμοι πᾶσι, ὑφ’ ἑνὸσ προστάγματοσ καὶ μιᾶσ ἡγεμονίασ τροπαὶ βόρειοι τροπαὶ νότιοι ἰσημερίαι Πλειὰσ Ἀρκτοῦροσ, ὡρ͂αι σπόρων ὡρ͂αι φυτειῶν· (Plutarch, De exilio, section 5 8:1)
  • σὺ οὖν, ἔφη, ὦ Σώκρατεσ, πότερον ἡγῇ κρεῖττον εἶναι ἑνὶ τούτων τῶν σπόρων χρῆσθαι ἐκλεξάμενον, ἐάν τε πολὺ ἐάν τε ὀλίγον σπέρμα σπείρῃ τισ, ἢ ἀρξάμενον ἀπὸ τοῦ πρωιμωτάτου μέχρι τοῦ ὀψιμωτάτου σπείρειν; (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 17 6:1)
  • Ἀφροδίτῃ δὲ σπόρων καὶ χαρίτων πότε μᾶλλον καιρὸσ ὑπῆρξεν; (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 31:3)

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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