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στόχος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στόχος στόχου

Structure: στοχ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. pillar of brick, = στοχάς ‎(stokhás)
  2. butt, target
  3. aim, aiming
  4. guess, conjecture

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

  • ἄλλαι δὲ θύρσουσ ἱέσαν δι’ αἰθέροσ Πενθέωσ, στόχον δύστηνον· (Euripides, episode, lyric 5:7)
  • ἐκ τούτου δὲ παρῆν ὁρᾶν τὰ μὲν γυμνάσια μεστὰ τῶν ἀνδρῶν γυμναζομένων, τὸν δὲ ἱππόδρομον ἱππέων ἱππαζομένων, τοὺσ δὲ ἀκοντιστὰσ καὶ τοὺσ τοξότασ ἐπὶ στόχον ἱέντασ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 1 27:4)
  • μετὰ δὲ ταύτασ Κελαινὼ καὶ Εὐρυβία καὶ Φοίβη, τῆσ Ἀρτέμιδοσ οὖσαι συγκυνηγοὶ καὶ διὰ παντὸσ εὐστόχωσ ἀκοντίζουσαι, τὸν ἕνα στόχον οὐκ ἔτρωσαν, ἀλλ’ ἑαυταῖσ συνασπίζουσαι τότε πᾶσαι κατεκόπησαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 16 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. aim

  2. guess

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