Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • φημὶ γὰρ ἤδη τέχνησ εὑρῆσθαι τέρματα τῆσδε σαφῆ χειρὸσ ὑφ’ ἡμετέρησ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 62 2:2)
  • Αἰγείδη Θησεῦ, Πιτθηί̈δοσ ἔκγονε κούρησ, πολλαῖσ τοι πολίεσσι πατὴρ ἐμὸσ ἐγκατέθηκε τέρματα καὶ κλωστῆρασ ἐν ὑμετέρῳ πτολιέθρῳ. (Plutarch, chapter 24 5:1)
  • φεῦ φεῦ, τὸ παρὸν τό τ’ ἐπερχόμενον πῆμα στενάχω, πῇ ποτε μόχθων χρὴ τέρματα τῶνδ’ ἐπιτεῖλαι. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests2)
  • δρόμου δ’ ἰσώσασ τἀφέσει τὰ τέρματα νίκησ ἔχων ἐξῆλθε πάντιμον γέρασ. (Sophocles, episode 6:3)
  • φημὶ γὰρ ἤδη τέχνησ εὑρῆσθαι τέρματα τῆσδε σαφῆ χειρὸσ ὑφ’ ἡμετέρησ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 10)

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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