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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

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

  • τοιγαροῦν, ὥσ σε μέμνημαι ἐν Κρήτῃ θεασάμενοσ ἀμπεχόνῃ κεκοσμημένον πανηγυρικῶσ, οὐ τὴν φρόνησιν ἐζήλουν οὐδὲ τὴν ἀρετήν, ἀλλὰ τοῦ χιτῶνοσ εἰργασμένου περιττῶσ τὴν λεπτότητα καὶ τῆσ χλαμύδοσ οὔσησ ἁλουργοῦ τὴν οὐλότητα καὶ τὸ κάλλοσ ἀγαπῶν καὶ τεθηπὼσ εἶχε δέ τι καὶ ἡ πόρπη χρυσὸσ οὖσα παίγνιον οἶμαι τορείαισ διηκριβωμένον εἱπόμην γεγοητευμένοσ, ὥσπερ αἱ γυναῖκεσ. (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 6 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. a carving in relief

Related

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

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