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σύνθημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σύνθημα σύνθηματος

Structure: συνθηματ (Stem)

Etym.: sunti/qhmi

Sense

  1. anything agreed upon, a preconcerted signal, symbols
  2. a watchword, the word, it
  3. any token or sign
  4. an agreement, covenant, by agreement

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

  • Ἀντίοχοσ δὲ ὁ σωτὴρ ὅτε τοῖσ Γαλάταισ συνάπτειν ἔμελλεν, ἔδοξεν ὄναρ ἐπιστάντα οἱ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον κελεύειν σύνθημα πρὸ τῆσ μάχησ παραδοῦναι τῇ στρατιᾷ τὸ ὑγιαίνειν, καὶ ὑπὸ τούτῳ συνθήματι τὴν θαυμαστὴν ἐκείνην νίκην ἐνίκησε. (Lucian, Pro lapsu inter salutandum 19:1)
  • σπεῖραν ἐν Βρεντεσίῳ βασιλικὴν συνέταξεν ἀμφ’ αὑτὸν εἶναι, καὶ φανερῶσ αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ πόλει σιδηροφοροῦντεσ ἄνδρεσ ἐδορυφόρουν τε καὶ ἐνυκτοφυλάκουν ὑπὸ συνθήματι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 3, chapter 8 4:12)

Synonyms

  1. any token or sign

  2. an agreement

Related

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

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