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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

  • "τίσ δὲ συμμάχοισ θάρσοσ παρέσχεν ἢ Ἀγησίλαοσ, καίπερ ἤδη πρὸσ τῷ τέρματι τοῦ βίου ὤν; (Plutarch, An seni respublica gerenda sit, chapter, section 2 6:4)
  • σφᾶσ ὦν οὐ χρῆναι ἀφανίσαι τὸ ἔργον, πρὸσ τέρματι ἤδη ἐόντασ τῶν πόνων, ἄλλωσ τε οὐδὲ ἀπόρωσ ἔτι τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἐν τῷ παραπλόῳ ἔχοντασ. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 32 12:1)
  • ἀπὸ στρατείασ γάρ νιν ἠμποληκότα τὰ πλεῖστ’ ἄμεινον εὔφροσιν δεδεγμένη, δροίτῃ περῶντι λουτρὰ κἀπὶ τέρματι φᾶροσ περεσκήνωσεν , ἐν δ’ ἀτέρμονι κόπτει πεδήσασ’ ἄνδρα δαιδάλῳ πέπλῳ. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode 3:1)
  • ἐν δ’ ἄρ’ ἑκάστῳ τέρματι δαίδαλα πολλὰ διακριδὸν εὖ ἐπέπαστο. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 13:22)
  • ἐπὶ γὰρ τῷ τέρματι τοῦ βίου τὴν κρίσιν τῆσ γεροντίασ προσθεὶσ ἐποίησε μηδὲ ἐν τῷ γήρᾳ ἀμελεῖσθαι τὴν καλοκἀγαθίαν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 10 2:2)

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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