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τέλμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τέλμα τέλματος

Structure: τελματ (Stem)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. standing water, a pool, pond, marsh, swamp, low land subject to inundation, water-meads
  2. the mud of a pool, mud for building with, mortar

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

  • ἔτυχε δὲ τοῦ ποταμοῦ λιμνάσαντοσ οὐ πολλαῖσ πρότερον ἡμέραισ ἐγκαταλελεῖφθαι τέλμα βαθὺ καὶ τυφλὸν ἐν τόποισ ἐπιπέδοισ κατὰ τὴν νῦν οὖσαν ἀγοράν, ὅθεν οὐκ ἦν ὄψει πρόδηλον οὐδ’ εὐφύλακτον, ἄλλωσ δὲ χαλεπὸν καὶ ὕπουλον. (Plutarch, chapter 18 3:1)
  • ἔτι τοίνυν, ἔφη, πάμμεγά τι εἶναι αὐτό, καὶ ἡμᾶσ οἰκεῖν τοὺσ μέχρι Ἡρακλείων στηλῶν ἀπὸ Φάσιδοσ ἐν σμικρῷ τινι μορίῳ, ὥσπερ περὶ τέλμα μύρμηκασ ἢ βατράχουσ περὶ τὴν θάλατταν οἰκοῦντασ, καὶ ἄλλουσ ἄλλοθι πολλοὺσ ἐν πολλοῖσι τοιούτοισ τόποισ οἰκεῖν. (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 878:1)
  • ἀεὶ δέ τι δῃῶν, καὶ τὰ περικείμενα πορθῶν, ἔλαθε περὶ κώμην ἐνεδρευθείσ, ἣν ἐκ τοῦ πλέονοσ τέλμα πηλοῦ περιεῖχεν, ἐπὶ δὲ θάτερα φάραγξ ἦν, καὶ ἀφανὴσ ἐν ἐκείνῃ λόχοσ ὑπεκρύπτετο. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 6:3)
  • καὶ μόλισ ἐσ ἀλίμενα καὶ πετρώδη διερρίφησαν, δύο τινὰσ ἐσ τέλμα τῶν Καίσαροσ κατενεχθείσασ ἑλοῦσαι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 9 3:10)
  • καί ποτ’ Ἀναξάρχου εἰσ τέλμα ἐμπεσόντοσ, παρῆλθεν οὐ βοηθήσασ· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, Q, Kef. ia'. PURRWN 3:8)

Synonyms

  1. standing water

Related

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

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