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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

  • δἰ ἑαυτῶν γὰρ τὰ στοιχεῖα μεθαρμοζόμενα, ὥσπερ ἐν ψαλτηρίῳ φθόγγοι τοῦ ρυθμοῦ τὸ ὄνομα διαλλάσσουσι, πάντοτε μένοντα ἤχῳ, ὅπερ ἐστὶν εἰκάσαι ἐκ τῆσ τῶν γεγονότων ὄψεωσ ἀκριβῶσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 19:18)
  • ὅτι δὲ οὐδὲ τῶν ἄλλων ἀπέσχετο γραμμάτων, ἀλλὰ καὶ τὸ Δέλτα καὶ τὸ Θῆτα καὶ τὸ Ζῆτα, μικροῦ δεῖν πάντα ἠδίκησε τὰ στοιχεῖα, αὐτά μοι κάλει τὰ ἀδικηθέντα γράμματα. (Lucian, Judicium vocalium, (no name) 10:2)
  • "καίτοι ὁ μὲν Ἐμπεδοκλῆσ τὰ στοιχεῖα κολλῶν καὶ συναρμόττων θερμότησι καὶ μαλακότησι καὶ ὑγρότησι μῖξιν αὐτοῖσ καὶ συμφυϊάν ἑνωτικὴν ἁμωσγέπωσ ἐνδίδωσιν· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 10 1:8)
  • "ὅσ γε καὶ διάκοσμον πεποίηται, καὶ στοιχεῖα μιγνύσ, τὸ λαμπρὸν καὶ σκοτεινόν, ἐκ τούτων τὰ φαινόμενα πάντα καὶ διὰ τούτων ἀποτελεῖ· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 137)
  • μία μὲν δὴ θεωρία τῆσ συνθετικῆσ ἐπιστήμησ ἡ περὶ αὐτὰ τὰ πρῶτα μόρια καὶ στοιχεῖα τῆσ λέξεωσ ἥδε· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 71)
  • ἡ σύνθεσισ ἔστι μέν, ὥσπερ καὶ αὐτὸ δηλοῖ τοὔνομα, ποιά τισ θέσισ παρ’ ἄλληλα τῶν τοῦ λόγου μορίων, ἃ δὴ καὶ στοιχεῖά τινεσ τῆσ λέξεωσ καλοῦσιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 21)

Synonyms

  1. one of a row

  2. the elements of knowledge and the sciences

  3. a planet

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