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

  • τὰ δὲ μακρὰ ἀπολείπεσθαι ποιεῖ, ὥσπερ οἱ ἐξωτέρω ἀποκάμπτοντεσ τοῦ τέρματοσ· (Aristotle, Rhetoric, Book 3, chapter 9 6:3)
  • σοί, πατρὶ Θεσσαλίη πωλοτρόφε, μέμψιν ἀνάπτω Πήγασοσ, ὡσ ἀδίκου τέρματοσ ἠντίασα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 211)
  • ἢ γὰρ ἐφ’ ὑσπλήγων ἢ τέρματοσ εἶδέ τισ ἄκρου ἠΐθεον, μέσσῳ δ’ οὒ ποτ’ ἐνὶ σταδίῳ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 557 1:1)
  • Πέτραν οὐκ ὀλίγην τῇ περιόδῳ καὶ μῆκοσ ὑψηλὴν πανταχόθεν περιερρώγασι βαθεῖαι φάραγγεσ κάτωθεν ἐξ ἀοράτου τέρματοσ κρημνώδεισ καὶ πάσῃ βάσει ζῴων ἀπρόσιτοι, πλὴν ὅσον κατὰ δύο τόπουσ τῆσ πέτρασ εἰσ ἄνοδον οὐκ εὐμαρῆ παρεικούσησ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 320:1)

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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