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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

  • ἔτι δὲ καὶ Ἐλεάζαρον, παραγνοὺσ τὴν ἱερὰν βίβλον καὶ δοὺσ σύνθημα Θεοῦ βοηθείασ τῆσ πρώτησ σπείρασ αὐτὸσ προηγούμενοσ, συνέβαλε τῷ Νικάνορι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 8:23)
  • λοχαγοὶ δὲ καὶ ταξίαρχοι οἱ Σάτυροι ἐγκαθειστήκεσαν καὶ τὸ μὲν σύνθημα ἦν ἅπασι τὸ εὐοῖ. (Lucian, (no name) 4:2)
  • ὅσοι δὲ λογχοφόροι ἢ κοντοφόροι ἢ μαχαιροφόροι ἢ πελεκοφόροι ἐσ τὰ πλάγιά τε ἑκατέρωθεν ὁρώντων καὶ τὸ σύνθημα προσμενόντων. (Arrian, Acies Contra Alanos 29:2)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • ἢν δ’ οὖν ἐγείρῃσ, οἶσθα σύνθημα στρατοῦ; (Euripides, Rhesus, episode7)

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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