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τέρμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τέρμα τέρματος

Structure: τερματ (Stem)

Sense

  1. an end, boundary
  2. the goal round which chariots had to turn
  3. the mark set to shew how far a quoit was thrown
  4. an end, issue, event
  5. an end, limit, boundaries
  6. an end, the limit, the end, the term or end, death, at last
  7. the end or highest point
  8. the highest power, supremacy, sovereign

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

  • οὐκ ἦν σταθμὸσ τοῦ χαλκοῦ, οὗ ἐποίησε πάντα τὰ ἔργα ταῦτα, ἐκ πλήθουσ σφόδρα. οὐκ ἦν τέρμα τῶν σταθμῶν τοῦ χαλκοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 7:32)
  • ἐφ̓ οἷσ γὰρ αὐτοὶ πάσχοντεσ ἠγανάκτουν, ἐπὶ τούτοισ, οὓσ ἐδόκουν θεούσ, ἐν αὐτοῖσ κολαζόμενοι, ἰδόντεσ ὃν πάλαι ἠρνοῦντο εἰδέναι Θεὸν ἐπέγνωσαν ἀληθῆ. διὸ καὶ τὸ τέρμα τῆσ καταδίκησ ἐπ̓ αὐτοὺσ ἐπῆλθεν. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 12:27)
  • κἀκεῖ γὰρ ὁ μὲν ἀγαθὸσ δρομεὺσ τῆσ ὕσπληγγοσ εὐθὺσ καταπεσούσησ μόνον τοῦ πρόσω ἐφιέμενοσ καὶ τὴν διάνοιαν ἀποτείνασ πρὸσ τὸ τέρμα κἀν τοῖσ ποσὶ τὴν ἐλπίδα τῆσ νίκησ ἔχων τὸν πλησίον οὐδὲν κακουργεῖ οὐδέ τι τῶν ^ κατὰ τοὺσ ἀγωνιστὰσ πολυπραγμονεῖ, ὁ δὲ κακὸσ ἐκεῖνοσ καὶ ἄναθλοσ ἀνταγωνιστὴσ ἀπογνοὺσ τὴν ἐκ τοῦ τάχουσ ἐλπίδα ἐπὶ τὴν κακοτεχνίαν ἐτράπετο, καὶ τοῦτο μόνον ἐξ ἅπαντοσ σκοπεῖ, ὅπωσ τὸν τρέχοντα ἐπισχὼν ἢ ἐμποδίσασ ἐπιστομιεῖ, ὡσ, εἰ τούτου διαμάρτοι, οὐκ ἄν ποτε νικῆσαι δυνάμενοσ. (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 12:4)
  • ὁ γὰρ θάνατοσ ἀκριβὴσ ἔλεγχοσ τῶν τοιούτων καὶ τὸ ἄχρι πρὸσ τὸ τέρμα εὐδαιμόνωσ διαβιῶναι. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 10:13)
  • εἰ γὰρ ἐπὶ τέρμα καὶ τὸ πλέον ἐμῶν κακῶν ἱκόμενοσ ἔτι ματέροσ ἄγαλμα φόνιον ἐξέλοι, γᾶν δὲ φίλιον Ἰνάχου θεῖτ’ ὀνήσασ. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. an end

  2. an end

  3. an end

  4. the end or highest point

Related

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

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