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στοιχεῖον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στοιχεῖον στοιχείου

Structure: στοιχει (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: stoi=xos

Sense

  1. (properly) one of a row:
  2. (in the sun-dial) the shadow of the gnomon, which advances regularly
  3. (generally) one of a series, a component part, an element:
  4. a simple sound of the voice, as the first element of language; an elementary sound, as distinct from a letter (γράμμα, grámma)
  5. (physics, chiefly in the plural) any one of the component parts of matter, an element
  6. (in the plural) the elements of knowledge and the sciences
  7. (generally) a simple or elementary principle
  8. (in later writers) a planet

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

  • "οἶμαι δὲ καὶ διὰ τοῦ Η στοιχείου τυπώσασθαι τοὺσ παλαιοὺσ τὴν δασεῖαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 57 2:7)
  • "χωρὶσ δὲ τοῦ τ στοιχείου Ιὤνεσ ἤγανον λέγουσιν, ὡσ Ἀνακρέων χεῖρὰ τ’ ἐν ἠγάνῳ βαλεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 1422)
  • καὶ Ξενοφῶν ἐν τῷ περὶ ἱππικῆσ σιαγόνα μικρὰν συνεσταλμένην οἱ δὲ διὰ τοῦ υ στοιχείου ἐκφέροντεσ κατ’ ἀναλογίαν λέγουσιν ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑόσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 47 2:8)
  • ’ οἶδα δ’, ἄνδρεσ φίλοι, ὅτι Ἀττικοὶ μὲν διὰ τοῦ ρ στοιχείου λέγουσι καὶ κρίβανον καὶ κριβανίτην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 75 1:2)
  • στοιχείου γε μὴν καὶ ἀρχῆσ ἔννοια κοινὴ πᾶσιν ὡσ ἔποσ εἰπεῖν ἀνθρώποισ ἐμπέφυκεν, ὡσ ἁπλοῦν καὶ ἄκρατον εἶναι καὶ ἀσύνθετον· (Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos, section 481)

Synonyms

  1. one of a row

  2. the elements of knowledge and the sciences

  3. a planet

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