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τόπος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τόπος τόπου

Structure: τοπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. place, location
  2. (rhetoric) commonplace
  3. position, office
  4. opportunity, possibility

Declension

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

  • εἰσ τὸν τόπον τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου, οὗ ἐποίησεν ἐκεῖ τὴν ἀρχήν. καὶ ἐπεκαλέσατο ἐκεῖ Ἅβραμ τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ Κυρίου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 13:4)
  • ἐὰν ὦσι πεντήκοντα δίκαιοι ἐν τῇ πόλει, ἀπολεῖσ αὐτούσ̣ οὐκ ἀνήσεισ πάντα τὸν τόπον ἕνεκεν τῶν πεντήκοντα δικαίων, ἐὰν ὦσιν ἐν αὐτῇ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 18:24)
  • εἶπε δὲ Κύριοσ. ἐὰν ὦσιν ἐν Σοδόμοισ πεντήκοντα δίκαιοι ἐν τῇ πόλει, ἀφήσω ὅλην τὴν πόλιν καὶ πάντα τὸν τόπον δἰ αὐτούσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 18:26)
  • ἀπῆλθε δὲ ὁ Κύριοσ, ὡσ ἐπαύσατο λαλῶν τῷ Ἁβραάμ, καὶ Ἁβραὰμ ἀπέστρεψεν εἰσ τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 18:33)
  • ὅτι ἡμεῖσ ἀπόλλυμεν τὸν τόπον τοῦτον, ὅτι ὑψώθη ἡ κραυγὴ αὐτῶν ἔναντι Κυρίου, καὶ ἀπέστειλεν ἡμᾶσ Κύριοσ ἐκτρίψαι αὐτήν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 19:13)

Synonyms

  1. place

  2. position

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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