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σχοινισμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σχοινισμός σχοινισμοῦ

Structure: σχοινισμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: sxoi=nos

Sense

  1. a fencing with ropes, roping, rope-fences

Declension

Second 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

  • καὶ ἔπεσεν ὁ σχοινισμὸσ αὐτῶν ἀπὸ Ἀνάσσα καὶ πεδίον Λαβὲκ ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ Γαλαάδ, ἥ ἐστι πέραν τοῦ Ἰορδάνου. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 17:5)
  • αὐτοῖσ δὲ τέλοσ μὲν ἦν προσθέτοισ γενομένοισ δουλεύειν, τὰ δὲ πρὸ τούτου χαλεπώτερα, σχοινισμοὶ καὶ κιγκλίδεσ καὶ ἵπποι καὶ στάσεισ ὕπαιθροι, καύματοσ μὲν ἐν ἡλίῳ, ψύχουσ δ’ εἰσ πηλὸν ἐμβιβαζομένων ἢ πάγον, ὥστε τὴν δουλείαν σεισάχθειαν δοκεῖν εἶναι καὶ εἰρήνην. (Plutarch, Lucullus, chapter 20 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a fencing with ropes

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

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