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σταύρωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: σταύρωμα σταύρωματος

Structure: σταυρωματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. a palisade or stockade

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative σταύρωμα σταυρώματε σταυρώματα
Genitive σταυρώματος σταυρωμάτοιν σταυρωμάτων
Dative σταυρώματι σταυρωμάτοιν σταυρώμασιν*
Accusative σταύρωμα σταυρώματε σταυρώματα
Vocative σταύρωμα σταυρώματε σταυρώματα

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

  • καὶ ὑπερβὰσ τὰ κατὰ Σκῶλον σταυρώματα καὶ τάφρουσ ἐδῄωσε τὰ λοιπὰ τῆσ Βοιωτίασ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 2 24:4)
  • ὑπὸ δὲ τοῦ πλήθουσ τῶν βελῶν ἔλιπον οἱ πολέμιοι τά τε σταυρώματα καὶ τὰσ τύρσεισ· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 2 17:1)
  • οἱ δὲ ὁπλῖται ἔθεντο τὰ ὅπλα, οἱ μὲν περὶ τὰ σταυρώματα, οἱ δὲ κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν ἐπὶ τὴν ἄκραν φέρουσαν. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 2 21:2)
  • καὶ κατεκαύθη πᾶσα ἡ πόλισ καὶ αἱ οἰκίαι καὶ αἱ τύρσεισ καὶ τὰ σταυρώματα καὶ τἆλλα πάντα πλὴν τῆσ ἄκρασ. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 2 29:2)
  • βοῇ δὲ τότε παμμιγεῖ καὶ σάλπιγξιν ἀθρόαισ καὶ βυκανήμασιν ἐσ κατάπληξιν χρώμενοι τοὺσ μὲν φύλακασ ἐξέωσαν ἐκ τῶν φυλακτηρίων, τὴν δὲ τάφρον ἔχουν καὶ τὰ σταυρώματα διέσπων. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 4 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. a palisade or stockade

Related

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

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