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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

  • εὐθὺσ οὖν οἱ πολλοὶ κατεφρόνουν αὐτοῦ καὶ μαίνεσθαι ἔφασαν, καὶ πάλιν ἐθορύβουν σοφισταί, καθάπερ ἐν τέλματι βάτραχοι τὸνὕδρον οὐχ ὁρῶντεσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 43:3)
  • μετὰ δὲ τέλματι χρεώμενοι ἀσφάλτῳ θερμῇ καὶ διὰ τριήκοντα δόμων πλίνθου ταρσοὺσ καλάμων διαστοιβάζοντεσ, ἔδειμαν πρῶτα μὲν τῆσ τάφου τὰ χείλεα, δευτέρα δὲ αὐτὸ τὸ τεῖχοσ τὸν αὐτὸν τρόπον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 179 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. standing water

Related

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

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