Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τομός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τομός τομή τομόν

Structure: τομ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: te/mnw의 분사형

Sense

  1. cutting, cut sharpest

Declension

First/Second 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 ἄνθη ὤφθη ἐν τῇ γῇ, καιρὸσ τῆσ τομῆσ ἔφθακε, φωνὴ τῆσ τρυγόνοσ ἠκούσθη ἐν τῇ γῇ ἡμῶν, (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 2:12)
  • ἐπεὶ καὶ τῆσ τομῆσ ἄλλην αἰτίην ἤκουσα πολλὸν πιστοτέρην. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 15:11)
  • Κομβάβου μέν μοι τοσάδε εἰρήσθω, Γάλλων δὲ αὖτισ ἐγὼ λόγῳ ὑστέρῳ μεμνήσομαι, τομῆσ τε αὐτέων, ὅκωσ τάμνονται, καὶ ταφῆσ ὁκοίην θάπτονται, καὶ ὅτευ εἵνεκα ἐσ τὸ ἱρὸν οὐκ ἐσέρχονται· (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 27:10)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ ἁπλῶσ Λυσίασ παραλείπει τῶν στοιχείων, ἐξ ὧν οἱ λόγοι, οὐ τὰ πρόσωπα, οὐ τὰ πράγματα, οὐκ αὐτὰσ τὰσ πράξεισ, οὐ τρόπουσ τε καὶ αἰτίασ αὐτῶν, οὐ καιρούσ, οὐ χρόνουσ, οὐ τόπουσ, οὐ τὰσ ἑκάστου τούτων διαφορὰσ ἄχρι τῆσ εἰσ ἐλάχιστον τομῆσ, ἀλλ’ ἐξ ἁπάσησ θεωρίασ καὶ παντὸσ μερισμοῦ τὰσ οἰκείασ ἀφορμὰσ ἐκλέγει. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 15 1:3)
  • ἐμοὶ γοῦν πολὺ ἀσφαλέστερον σκυτοτομεῖν ἐπικεκυφότα ἢ πίνειν ἀπὸ χρυσῆσ φιάλησ κωνείῳ ἢ ἀκονίτῳ συνανακραθεῖσαν φιλοτησίαν ὁ γοῦν κίνδυνοσ ἐμοὶ μέν, εἰ παρολίσθοι τὸ σμιλίον καὶ ἁμάρτοι τῆσ τομῆσ τῆσ ἐπ’ εὐθύ, ὀλίγον τι αἱμάξαι τοὺσ δακτύλουσ ἐντεμόντα· (Lucian, Gallus, (no name) 26:2)

Derived

  • ἄτομος (uncut, indivisible, not capable of being cut/divided into smaller pieces)

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

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