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σταγών

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σταγών σταγόνος

Structure: σταγων (Stem)

Etym.: sta/zw

Sense

  1. a drop

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

  • ἄμμον θαλασσῶν καὶ σταγόνασ ὑετοῦ καὶ ἡμέρασ αἰῶνοσ τίσ ἐξαριθμήσει̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 1:3)
  • περὶ ὃν ἐκ σπονδύλων ἐκμελιζόμενοσ ἑώρα τὰσ ἑαυτοῦ σάρκασ περιλακιζομένασ καὶ κατὰ σπλάγχνων σταγόνασ αἵματοσ ἀπορρεούσασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 10:8)
  • αἰνῶ δ’ ὃσ ἡμῖν βίοτον ἐκ πεφυρμένου καὶ θηριώδουσ θεῶν διεσταθμήσατο, πρῶτον μὲν ἐνθεὶσ σύνεσιν, εἶτα δ’ ἄγγελον γλῶσσαν λόγων δούσ, ὥστε γιγνώσκειν ὄπα, τροφήν τε καρποῦ τῇ τροφῇ τ’ ἀπ’ οὐρανοῦ σταγόνασ ὑδρηλάσ, ὡσ τά γ’ ἐκ γαίασ τρέφῃ ἄρδῃ τε νηδύν· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode 3:5)
  • φοίνιαι δ’ ὁμοῦ γλῆναι γένει’ ἔτελλον, οὐδ’ ἀνίεσαν φόνου μυδώσασ σταγόνασ, ἀλλ’ ὁμοῦ μέλασ ὄμβροσ χαλάζησ αἱματοῦσ ἐτέγγετο. (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 1:19)
  • ἀλλὰ νόμοσ μὲν φονίασ σταγόνασ χυμένασ ἐσ πέδον ἄλλο προσαιτεῖν αἷμα. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, anapests1)

Synonyms

  1. a drop

Related

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

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