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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

  • πεποίηται δὲ καὶ ὁ νεὼσ λίθου τετραγώνου οὐ φαύλωσ· (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 2 1:1)
  • τὸ γὰρ τοῦ ἵππου μῆκοσ ἀπὸ κεφαλῆσ ἐπ̓ οὐρὰν ἐκπίμπλησι τοῦ τετραγώνου ὅ τι περ ἐσ βάθοσ τῷ ἀριθμῷ ἐνδέον· (Arrian, chapter 16 17:2)
  • ἂν οὖν ἐκτεθῶσιν αἱ τῶν σχημάτων πλευραί, τοῦ τετραγώνου τὰ σ’ καὶ τοῦ τριγώνου τὰ ὀκτὼ καὶ παραλληλογράμμων τοῦ μὲν ἑτέρου τὰ ἐννέα τοῦ δ’ ἑτέρου τὰ ιβ’, τοὺσ τῶν συμφωνιῶν ποιήσουσι λόγουσ. (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 13 4:1)
  • εὔλογον τὰ γὰρ ξδ’ καὶ κύβοσ ἐστὶν ἀπὸ πρώτου τετραγώνου καὶ τετράγωνοσ ἀπὸ πρώτου κύβου· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 16 16:1)
  • ἡ γὰρ ὀγδοὰσ κύβοσ ἀπ’ ἀρτίου πρῶτοσ οὖσα καὶ τοῦ πρώτου τετραγώνου διπλασία, τὸ μόνιμον καὶ δυσκίνητον οἰκεῖον ἔχει τῆσ τοῦ θεοῦ δυνάμεωσ, ὃν ἀσφάλειον καὶ γαιήοχον προσονομάζομεν. (Plutarch, chapter 36 4:2)

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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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