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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

  • ἕτεροι δὲ ἐκ Θρᾴκησ ἀναστήσαντεσ αὐτὸν ἑώσ Ἀρκαδίασ παρακομίζουσιν, οἰκῆσαι δὲ λέγουσιν ἐν Ὀρχομενῷ τε τῷ Ἀρκαδικῷ, καὶ Νήσῳ δὲ λεγομένῃ, καίπερ οὔσῃ μεσόχθονι, ἀπὸ τελμάτων καὶ ποταμοῦ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 49 1:3)
  • διόπερ τοὺσ ἐκ τῶν τελμάτων ἐξιόντασ τῶν Αἰθιόπων ὑπὸ τούτων τῶν θηρίων ἀναλίσκεσθαι συμβαίνει· (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 3, chapter 23 2:3)
  • ἔστι μὲν οὖν καὶ τοῦτο θαυμαστὸν τῶν ἐνθάδε τὸ ἐν ἕλει τοὺσ ἀέρασ ἀβλαβεῖσ εἶναι, καθάπερ καὶ ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ τῇ πρὸσ Αἰγύπτῳ τοῦ θέρουσ ἡ λίμνη τὴν μοχθηρίαν ἀποβάλλει διὰ τὴν ἀνάβασιν τοῦ ποταμοῦ καὶ τὸν τῶν τελμάτων ἀφανισμόν. (Strabo, Geography, book 5, chapter 1 14:8)
  • ὠνόμασται δ’ ἀπὸ τοῦ πηλοῦ καὶ τῶν τελμάτων. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 1 41:4)
  • διὸ πολλάκισ λοιμικὰ ἐμπίπτειν ὑπὸ αὐχμῶν καὶ τὰσ λίμνασ τελμάτων πίμπλασθαι καὶ τὴν ἀκρίδα ἐπιπολάζειν. (Strabo, Geography, book 17, chapter 3 20:6)

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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