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στρόφιγξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στρόφιγξ στρόφιγγος

Structure: στροφιγγ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: stre/fw

Sense

  1. the pivot, axle or pin on which a body turns
  2. pivots working in sockets
  3. well-hung

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

  • ἕκαστοσ δὲ τῶν κιόνων κρίκον εἶχε χρύσεον κατὰ τὸ ἔξω μέτωπον προσφυὴσ ὥσπερ ῥίζαισ τισὶν ἐμπεπλεγμένοσ κατὰ στίχον πρὸσ ἀλλήλουσ τετραμμένοι τὴν περιφέρειαν, καὶ δι’ αὐτῶν ἐπίχρυσοι σκυταλίδεσ ἐλαυνόμεναι πέντε πήχεων ἑκάστη τὸ μέγεθοσ σύνδεσμοσ ἦσαν τῶν κιόνων, ἐμβαινούσησ κατὰ κεφαλὴν σκυταλίδοσ ἑκάστησ τῇ ἑτέρᾳ τεχνητῷ στρόφιγγι κοχλίου τρόπον δεδημιουργημένῳ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 152:1)

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

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