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τριμμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τριμμός τριμμοῦ

Structure: τριμμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: tri/bw

Sense

  1. a beaten road

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

  • φαῦλαι δὲ αἳ οὐκ ἀπαλλαττόμεναι ἐκ τῶν τριμμῶν τὰ ὀρθὰ οὐ γιγνώσκουσιν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 3 9:5)
  • ἰχνευέτωσαν δὲ ἐκ τῶν τριμμῶν ταχὺ ἀπαλλαττόμεναι, τιθεῖσαι τὰσ κεφαλὰσ ἐπὶ γῆν λεχρίασ, ἐμμειδιῶσαι μὲν πρὸσ τὰ ἴχνη, ἐπικαταβάλλουσαι δὲ τὰ ὦτα· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 4 4:1)
  • τὰ μὲν γὰρ ὄρη οἱο͂́ν τ’ ἐστὶ καὶ ἰχνεύειν καὶ μεταθεῖν καθαρῶσ, τὰ δὲ ἔργα οὐδέτερα διὰ τοὺσ τριμμούσ. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 4 11:2)
  • κατάδηλοι δὲ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ τριμμοῖσ καὶ ἐν ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ, ἐὰν ὦσιν ἰσόπεδοι· (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 5 22:2)
  • τὰ δὲ δίκτυα τεινέτω ἐν ἀπέδοισ, ἐμβαλλέτω δὲ τὰ ἐνόδια εἰσ τὰσ ὁδούσ, καὶ ἐκ τῶν τριμμῶν εἰσ τὰ συμφέροντα, καθάπτων τοὺσ περιδρόμουσ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, τὰ ἀκρωλένια συνάγων, πηγνύων τὰσ σχαλίδασ μεταξὺ τῶν σαρδόνων, ἐπὶ ἄκρασ ἐπιβάλλων τοὺσ ἐπιδρόμουσ καὶ τὰ παράδρομα συμφράττων. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 6 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. a beaten road

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

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