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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

  • πολλοὺσ δὲ καλοὺσ ἀπομωμοκότασ παῖδασ πρὸσ τέρμασιν ὡρ́ασ διὰ τὴν ἰσχὺν τὴν ἡμετέραν διεμήρισαν ἄνδρεσ ἐρασταί, ὁ μὲν ὄρτυγα δοὺσ ὁ δὲ πορφυρίων’ ὁ δὲ χῆν’ ὁ δὲ Περσικὸν ὄρνιν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, parabasis11)
  • δὲ κακὰ πάνυ ῥᾳδίωσ στρογγύλα γὰρ εἶναί φασι ταῦτα καὶ συνεχῆ καὶ πρὸσ ἄλληλα φερόμενα κατὰ πολλὰσ αἰτίασ, τὰ δ’ ἀγαθὰ διεχῆ τε καὶ δυσκόλωσ συνερχόμενα πρὸσ αὐτοῖσ τοῦ βίου τοῖσ τέρμασιν. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium, chapter, section 28 2:1)
  • ἐπαινῶν φαίνεται τὸ δεῖν κτᾶσθαι νοῦν ἢ βρόχον καὶ τοῦ Τυρταίου τὸ πρὶν ἀρετῆσ πελάσαι τέρμασιν ἢ θανάτου· (Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, section 14 5:1)
  • ἔστασεν γὰρ ἅπαντα χορὸν ἐν τέρμασιν αὐτίκ’ ἀγῶνοσ· (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 9 34:1)
  • πρὶν ἀρετῆσ πελάσαι τέρμασιν ἢ θανάτου πλυτ. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 194)

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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