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τετράγωνος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τετράγωνος τετράγωνον

Structure: τετραγων (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: gwni/a

Sense

  1. with four equal angles, rectangular or square, squared, a square, a body of men drawn up in square
  2. a square, multiplied into itself
  3. square, perfect

Examples

  • καὶ πάντα τὰ θυρώματα καὶ αἱ χῶραι τετράγωνοι μεμελαθρωμέναι καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ θυρώματοσ ἐπὶ θύραν τρισσῶσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 7:42)
  • αἳ μὲν τετράγωνοι, αἳ δὲ ἑτερομήκεισ, αἳ δὲ ῥομβοειδεῖσ, αἳ δὲ ἐσ ἔμβολον συνηγμέναι. (Arrian, chapter 16 2:1)
  • αἱ γὰρ τετράγωνοι τάξεισ δυσπεριάγωγοί εἰσιν· (Arrian, chapter 16 12:1)
  • τὸ γὰρ ἓν καὶ τὰ τέσσαρα καὶ τὰ ὀκτὼ καὶ τὰ κζ’ κύβοι καὶ τετράγωνοι μ’ γίγνονται συντεθέντεσ. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 14 12:1)
  • πόθεν ὑμῖν εἰδέναι ὅτι καὶ κύβοι, οὐχ οὓσ ἀεὶ μεταχειρίζεσθε, ἄρτοι εἰσὶ τετράγωνοι, ἡδυσμένοι ἀννήθῳ καὶ τυρῷ καὶ ἐλαίῳ, ὥσ φησιν ̔ Ἡρακλείδησ ἐν Ὀψαρτυτικῷ; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 80 2:3)

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

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