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συλλαβή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: συλλαβή συλλαβῆς

Structure: συλλαβ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. conception, pregnancy
  2. that which holds together, i.e. a girdle, that which is held together
  3. several letters combined, syllable

Declension

First 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

  • ὁ Δημοσθένησ ἀνθρωπάριον ἐκ συλλαβῶν καὶ γλώσσησ συγκείμενον. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 51:1)
  • ἐπ’ Ἀττικὴν δὲ ἦλθε καὶ ἐκ μέσησ αὐτῆσ ἀνήρπασεν ἀνόμωσ Ὑμησσὸν ^ ὁρώντων ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν ἄλλων συλλαβῶν. (Lucian, Judicium vocalium, (no name) 8:5)
  • ’ ἐκ ταύτησ γὰρ τῆσ πίστεωσ τὸ τρίμετρον καλούμενον ἀνατίθησι τῷ θεῷ, φάσκων τοῦ θεοῦ διὰ τοῦθ’ ἑκάτερον εἶναι τῶν μέτρων, ὅτι μακρῶν μὲν τῶν πρώτων δύο συλλαβῶν λεγομένων ’ ἰὴ παιὰν ’ ἡρῷον γίνεται, βραχέωσ δὲ λεχθεισῶν ἰαμβεῖον, διὰ δὲ τοῦτο δῆλον ὅτι καὶ τὸν χωλίαμβον ἀναθετέον αὐτῷ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, compendium in ce, chapter 62 1:12)
  • αἰτία δὲ ἥ τε τῶν γραμμάτων φύσισ ἐξ ὧν ἡ φωνὴ συνέστηκεν, πολλὰσ καὶ διαφόρουσ ἔχουσα δυνάμεισ, καὶ ἡ τῶν συλλαβῶν πλοκὴ παντοδαπῶσ σχηματιζομένη. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 123)
  • αἰτία δὲ κἀνταῦθα ἥ τε τῶν γραμμάτων φύσισ καὶ ἡ τῶν συλλαβῶν δύναμισ, ἐξ ὧν πλέκεται τὰ ὀνόματα· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 137)
  • καὶ ἔδησεν Ἰωακὶμ τοὺσ μεγιστᾶνασ, Ζαράκην δὲ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ συλλαβὼν ἀνήγαγεν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 1:36)
  • ἔδοξε γὰρ ἐκεῖνον συλλαβὼν τούτοισ ἐργάσασθαι συμφοράν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 14:40)
  • μόνην δὲ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν ἔφυσεν ἐκ τῆσ ἑαυτοῦ κεφαλῆσ ὑπ’ αὐτὸν ἀτεχνῶσ τὸν ἐγκέφαλον συλλαβών τὸν μὲν γὰρ Διόνυσον ἡμιτελῆ, φασίν, ἐκ τῆσ μητρὸσ ἔτι καιομένησ ἁρπάσασ ἐν τῷ μηρῷ φέρων κατώρυξε κᾆτα ἐξέτεμεν τῆσ ὠδῖνοσ ἐνστάσησ. (Lucian, De sacrificiis, (no name) 5:6)
  • κατὰ δὴ ταῦτα, ἐκεῖνα ἔχε συλλαβὼν τὰ τοῦ Δημοσθένουσ ὅσα τῇ χειρὶ τῇ αὑτοῦ ὁ ῥήτωρ ἔγραψε, καὶ τὰ τοῦ Θουκυδίδου ὅσα παρὰ τοῦ Δημοσθένουσ καὶ αὐτὰ ὀκτάκισ μεταγεγραμμένα εὑρέθη, καὶ ὅλωσ ἅπαντα ἐκεῖνα ὅσα ὁ Σύλλασ Ἀθήνηθεν εἰσ Ἰταλίαν ἐξέπεμψε· (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. conception

  2. several letters combined

Similar forms

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