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στεῖνος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στεῖνος στεῖνεος

Structure: στεινο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: stei/nw

Sense

  1. a narrow, strait, confined space
  2. pressure, straits, distress, by suffering

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

  • ἡ δὲ μεσηγὺ ῥηγμίνων στεινὴ τελέθει ὁδὸσ ἐκτὸσ ἐλάσσαι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 25:22)
  • ἀπὸ δὲ Ἡλίου πόλιοσ ἄνω ἰόντι στεινή ἐστι Αἴγυπτοσ. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 8 2:1)
  • τὸ ὦν δὴ ἀπὸ Ἡλίου πόλιοσ οὐκέτι πολλὸν χωρίον ὡσ εἶναι Αἰγύπτου, ἀλλ’ ὅσον τε ἡμερέων τεσσέρων καὶ δέκα ἀναπλόου ἐστὶ στεινὴ Αἴγυπτοσ, ἐοῦσα τῶν ὀρέων τῶν εἰρημένων τὸ μεταξὺ πεδιὰσ μὲν γῆ, στάδιοι δὲ μάλιστα ἐδόκεόν μοι εἶναι, τῇ στεινότατον ἐστί, διηκοσίων οὐ πλέουσ ἐκ τοῦ Ἀραβίου ὄρεοσ ἐσ τὸ Λιβυκὸν καλεόμενον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 2, chapter 8 4:1)
  • κατὰ μέν νυν Αἴγυπτον ἡ ἀκτὴ αὕτη στεινή ἐστι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 41 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. a narrow

  2. pressure

Related

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

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