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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

  • ὅτι τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ τῶν ἀνθρώπων οὐδὲν δεήσει πολλῶν γραμμάτων ἀλλ’ ὀλίγων συνθημάτων, καὶ περὶ τῶν κοινῶν καὶ περὶ τῶν ἰδίων ὁμονοήσουσιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 14 2:5)
  • οὐκοῦν τὸ γραμμάτων καὶ συνθημάτων πάρισον καὶ τὸ πολλῶν καὶ ὀλίγων καὶ κοινῶν καὶ ἰδίων ἀντίθετα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Isocrate, chapter 14 2:6)
  • καὶ ἐπειδὴ συνήχθησαν οἱ προεστηκότεσ τῶν ἑταίρων ἅπαντεσ εἰσ τὴν ἀγοράν, διὰ συνθημάτων ἀδήλων ἐκείνοισ εὐθὺσ αἵ τε ἄκραι πλήρεισ ἐγίγνοντο τῶν ὑπὲρ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀνειληφότων τὰ ὅπλα καὶ τὰ περὶ τὴν ἀγορὰν ὑπὸ τῶν ἱππέων ἐφρουρεῖτο κύκλῳ, μία τε οὐ κατελείπετο τοῖσ ἀπιέναι βουλομένοισ ἔξοδοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 57 2:2)
  • καταστάντων δὲ πάντων εἰσ μέτωπον σημήνασ διὰ τῶν συνθημάτων τὰσ μὲν ἀρχὰσ ἐποιεῖτο τὸν ἐπίπλουν ἐν τάξει, μενόντων πρὸσ τῇ γῇ τῶν Ῥωμαίων διὰ τὸ προσδέχεσθαι τὰσ ἐκ τοῦ λιμένοσ ἀνατρεχούσασ ναῦσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 50 8:1)
  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ σύνεγγυσ αὑτῶν ἦσαν, ἀρθέντων τῶν συνθημάτων ἐφ’ ἑκατέρασ τῆσ ναυαρχίδοσ συνέβαλλον ἀλλήλοισ. (Polybius, Histories, book 1, chapter 51 1:2)

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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