Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • τὰ μὲν δὴ κνυζούμενα κατὰ τοῦ τέλματοσ ἐκυλινδεῖτο, λύκαινα δέ τισ ἐπιφανεῖσα νεοτόκοσ σπαργῶσα τοὺσ μαστοὺσ ὑπὸ γάλακτοσ ἀνεδίδου τὰσ θηλὰσ τοῖσ στόμασιν αὐτῶν καὶ τῇ γλώττῃ τὸν πηλόν, ᾧ κατάπλεοι ἦσαν, ἀπελίχμα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 79 8:1)
  • ὁ γὰρ ὑπὸ τοῦ τέλματοσ καταπινόμενοσ οὔτε νήχεσθαι δύναται, παραιρουμένησ τῆσ ἰλύοσ τὴν τοῦ σώματοσ κίνησιν, οὔτ’ ἐκβῆναι κατισχύει, μηδὲν ἔχων στερέμνιον εἰσ ἐπίβασιν· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 1, chapter 30 8:1)
  • οἱ δέ σφισιν ἐπὶ τῶν νεῶν μάλιστα ἐταλαιπώρουν ἅτε τοῦ κόλπου τοῦ Λαμιακοῦ τέλματοσ πρὸσ ταῖσ Θερμοπύλαισ ὄντοσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 4 5:2)
  • ἀπὸ δὲ τῆσ Ἀλβανίασ διὰ πέτρασ πρῶτον λατομητὴ εἴσοδοσ, εἶτα διὰ τέλματοσ ὃ ποιεῖ ὁ ποταμὸσ Ἀλαζόνιοσ ἐκ τοῦ Καυκάσου καταπίπτων. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 3 9:2)
  • τότε δὴ πειθαρχησάντων αὐτῶν καὶ διὰ τοῦ τέλματοσ ἁμιλλωμένων, ἅπαν τὸ στρατόπεδον ὑπέλαβε μετά τινοσ θεοῦ προνοίασ γίνεσθαι τὸ συμβαῖνον. (Polybius, Histories, book 10, chapter 14 11:1)
  • ταύτῃ πλησιάσασ ἔρριψεν ἑαυτὸν εἰσ τὸ νᾶμα σὺν τοῖσ ὅπλοισ, καὶ ὁ Ῥωμύλοσ ὡσ αὐτίκα δὴ τοῦ ἀνδρὸσ ἐν τῇ λίμνῃ διαφθαρησομένου ̔καὶ ἅμα ἀδύνατον ἦν κατὰ τέλματόσ τε αὐτὸν καὶ δι’ ὕδατοσ πολλοῦ διώκειν’ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ Σαβίνουσ τρέπεται· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 42 8:1)

Synonyms

  1. standing water

Related

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION