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

  • φύσκαι δὲ καὶ σίζοντεσ ἀλλάντων τόμοι παρὰ τοῖσ ποταμοῖσιν ἐξεκέχυντ’ ἀντ’ ὀστράκων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:145)
  • "σχελίδεσ δ’ ὁλόκνημοι πλησίον τακερώταται ἐπὶ πινακίσκοισ καὶ δίεφθ’ ἀκροκώλια ἥδιστον ἀπατμίζοντα καὶ χόλικεσ βοὸσ καὶ πλευρὰ δελφάκει’ ἐπεξανθισμένα χναυρότατα παρέκειτ’ ἐπ’ ἀμύλοισ καθήμενα, παρῆν δὲ χόνδροσ γἀλακι κατανενιμμένοσ ἐν καταχύτλοισ λεκάναισι καὶ πύου τόμοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 81 1:147)
  • φέρονται δ’ αὐτοῦ συγγράμματα τόμοι δέκα· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , section59)
  • Φέρονται δ’ αὐτοῦ συγγράμματα τόμοι δέκα· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , Kef. a'. ANTISQENHS 15:3)

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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