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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

  • περιέθηκασ δὲ αὐτῷ πανοπλίαν, δόξαν δὲ στηθέων αὐτοῦ τόλμῃ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iob 39:20)
  • ἐθέλει δὲ γᾶρυν ἐκ στηθέων χέων αἰνεῖν Ιἕρωνα. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 5 1:3)
  • κραδίη δέ μοι ἔξω στηθέων ἐκθρώσκει, τρομέει δ’ ὕπο φαίδιμα γυῖα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 36 3:3)
  • ἁνίκ’ ἀνθρώπων καματώδεεσ οἴχονται μέριμναι στηθέων ἔξω, πελάγει δ’ ἐν πολυχρύσοιο πλούτου πάντεσ ἴσᾳ νέομεν ψευδῆ πρὸσ ἀκτὰν ὃσ μὲν ἀχρήμων, ἀφνεὸσ τότε, τοὶ δ’ αὖ πλουτέοντεσ εἶτ’ ἐπάγει ἀέξονται φρένασ ἀμπελίνοισ τόξοισ δαμέντεσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 21 1:2)
  • ἱκνεῖται λόγοσ διὰ στηθέων, τριχὸσ δ’ ὀρθίασ πλόκαμοσ ἵσταται, μεγάλα μεγαληγόρων κλυούσᾳ ἀνοσίων ἀνδρῶν. (Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, choral, strophe 31)

Synonyms

  1. chest

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