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τορεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τορεία

Structure: τορει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: toreu/w

Sense

  1. a carving in relief

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τορεία τορείᾱ τορεῖαι
Genitive τορείᾱς τορείαιν τορειῶν
Dative τορείᾱͅ τορείαιν τορείαις
Accusative τορείᾱν τορείᾱ τορείᾱς
Vocative τορείᾱ τορείᾱ τορεῖαι

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

  • τὴν μὲν οὖν στεφάνην παλαιστιαίαν εἰργάσαντο, τὰ δὲ κυμάτια στρεπτὰ τὴν ἀναγλυφὴν ἔχοντα σχοινοειδῆ τῇ τορείᾳ θαυμαστῶσ ἐκ τῶν τριῶν μερῶν μεμιμημένην. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 76:2)
  • ἀνέγλυψαν δὲ λεπτομερεῖ καὶ φιλοπονωτάτῃ τορείᾳ τῶν ποδῶν ἕκαστον, κισσὸν αὐτοῖσ καὶ κλήματα ἀμπέλων σὺν καὶ βότρυσιν ἐκφύσαντεσ, ὡσ εἰκάσαι μηδὲν ἀποδεῖν τῆσ ἀληθείασ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 12 87:1)

Synonyms

  1. a carving in relief

Related

Similar forms

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

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