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στῆριγξ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στῆριγξ στῆριγγος

Structure: στηριγγ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a support, prop, stay
  2. the fork with which the pole of a two-wheeled chariot was propped

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

  • ταῦτα γάρ ἐστι στήριγγεσ τοῦ σώματοσ· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 8:2)
  • ἅμα δὲ τούτοισ πραττομένοισ διὰ τῶν μεταλλευόντων ὑπορύξασ τὰ τείχη καὶ τὰσ στήριγγασ ἐμπρήσασ κατέβαλε τρεῖσ πύργουσ τοὺσ μεγίστουσ καὶ μεσοπύργια τὰ ἴσα. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 18, chapter 70 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a support

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

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