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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

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

  • οἵ γε μὴν Ἀργεῖοι ἐπεὶ ἤκουσαν ὄπισθεν ὄντασ τοὺσ Λακεδαιμονίουσ, στραφέντεσ δρόμῳ πάλιν ἐκ τοῦ σταυρώματοσ ἐξέπιπτον. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 12:3)
  • κύκλῳ δὲ περιάγοντοσ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον, ὡσ εἶδον οἱ προθέοντεσ τοῦ Ἀρχιδάμου πελτασταὶ τοὺσ ἐπαρίτουσ ἔξω τοῦ σταυρώματοσ, ἐπιτίθενται αὐτοῖσ, καὶ <οἱ> ἱππεῖσ συνεμβάλλειν ἐπειρῶντο. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 30:2)
  • καὶ μὴν οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι ὕστερον αὖ ἐλθόντεσ νυκτὸσ ἐπὶ τὸν Κρῶμνον ἐπικρατοῦσι τοῦ σταυρώματοσ <τοῦ> κατὰ τοὺσ Ἀργείουσ καὶ τοὺσ πολιορκουμένουσ τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων εὐθὺσ ἐξεκάλουν. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 4 36:1)

Synonyms

  1. a palisade or stockade

Related

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

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