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στέργηθρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στέργηθρον στέργηθρου

Structure: στεργηθρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ste/rgw

Sense

  1. a love-charm, love, affection

Declension

Second 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

  • καὶ μὴ πρὸσ ἄκρον μυελὸν ψυχῆσ, εὔλυτα δ’ εἶναι στέργηθρα φρενῶν, ἀπὸ τ’ ὤσασθαι καὶ ξυντεῖναι, καθάπερ πόδα νεὼσ ἐνδιδόντι καὶ προσάγοντι ταῖσ χρείαισ τὴν φιλίαν. (Plutarch, De amicorum multitudine, chapter, section 6 10:1)
  • γαμψωνύχων τε πτῆσιν οἰωνῶν σκεθρῶσ διώρισ’, οἵτινέσ τε δεξιοὶ φύσιν εὐωνύμουσ τε, καὶ δίαιταν ἥντινα ἔχουσ’ ἕκαστοι, καὶ πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ τίνεσ ἔχθραι τε καὶ στέργηθρα καὶ συνεδρίαι· (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 4:6)

Synonyms

  1. a love-charm

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

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