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στῆθος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στῆθος στήθεος

Structure: στηθο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. chest, breast (often as the seat of emotions, passion)
  2. The ball of the foot or hand
  3. A breast shaped hill or mound

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

  • ὀλίγον μὲν ὑπνοῖσ, ὀλίγον δὲ κάθησαι, μικρὸν δὲ νυστάζεισ, ὀλίγον δὲ ἐναγκαλίζῃ χερσὶ στήθη. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 6:13)
  • ὀλίγον νυστάζω, ὀλίγον δὲ καθυπνῶ, ὀλίγον δὲ ἐναγκαλίζομαι χερσὶ στήθη. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:50)
  • καὶ τούτουσ οἱ μὲν πρωτοστάται ἐσ προβολὴν ἐχόντων, ὡσ εἰ πελάζοιεν αὐτοῖσ οἱ πολέμιοι, κατὰ τὰ στήθη μάλιστα τῶν ἵππων τίθεσθαι τῶν κοντῶν τὸν σίδηρον· (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 22:3)
  • στήθη δὲ πλατέα ἀμείνω τῶν στενῶν, καὶ τὰσ ὠμοπλάτασ διεστώσασ ἐχόντων καὶ μὴ συμπεπηγυίασ ἀλλ̓ ὡσ οἱο͂́ν τε λελυμένασ ἀπ̓ ἀλλήλων. (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 5 9:1)
  • οἶνον γάρ με Ψίθιον γεύσασ ἡδὺν ἄκρατον, διψῶντα λαβὼν ὄξει παίει πρὸσ τὰ στήθη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, book 1, chapter 51 2:12)

Synonyms

  1. chest

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