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τύμπανον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τύμπανον τύμπανου

Structure: τυμπαν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: tu/ptw

Sense

  1. a kettledrum
  2. a drum-stick, a staff, cudgel
  3. tympana, wheels of solid wood.

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

  • αἰνεσάτωσαν τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ ἐν χορῷ, ἐν τυμπάνῳ καὶ ψαλτηρίῳ ψαλάτωσαν αὐτῷ, (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 149:3)
  • αἰνεῖτε αὐτὸν ἐν τυμπάνῳ καὶ χορῷ, αἰνεῖτε αὐτὸν ἐν χορδαῖσ καὶ ὀργάνῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 150:4)
  • ἀλλὰ σύ, ὦ τολμηρότατε, καὶ τὴν Ῥέαν αὐτὴν γραῦν ἤδη καὶ μητέρα τοσούτων θεῶν οὖσαν ἀνέπεισασ παιδεραστεῖν καὶ τὸ Φρύγιον μειράκιον ποθεῖν, καὶ νῦν ἐκείνη μέμηνεν ὑπὸ σοῦ καὶ ζευξαμένη τοὺσ λέοντασ, παραλαβοῦσα καὶ τοὺσ Κορύβαντασ ἅτε μανικοὺσ καὶ αὐτοὺσ ὄντασ, ἄνω καὶ κάτω τὴν Ἴδην περιπολοῦσιν, ἡ μὲν ὀλολύζουσα ἐπὶ τῷ Ἄττῃ, οἱ Κορύβαντεσ δὲ ὁ μὲν αὐτῶν τέμνεται ξίφει τὸν πῆχυν, ὁ δὲ ἀνεὶσ τὴν κόμην ἱέται μεμηνὼσ διὰ τῶν ὀρῶν, ὁ δὲ αὐλεῖ τῷ κέρατι, ὁ δὲ ἐπιβομβεῖ τῷ τυμπάνῳ ἢ ἐπικτυπεῖ τῷ κυμβάλῳ, καὶ ὅλωσ θόρυβοσ καὶ μανία τὰ ἐν τῇ Ἴδῃ ἅπαντά ἐστι. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 2:4)
  • μετὰ τοῦτ’ ἐκορυβάντιζ’, ὁ δ’ αὐτῷ τυμπάνῳ ᾄξασ ἐδίκαζεν ἐσ τὸ καινὸν ἐμπεσών. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 3:20)
  • εἰ δὲ λέγεισ πεφυκέναι σεαυτὸν ἐπὶ τοιαύτην ἐδωδήν, ὃ βούλει φαγεῖν πρῶτον αὐτὸσ ἀπόκτεινον, ἀλλ’ αὐτὸσ διὰ σεαυτοῦ, μὴ χρησάμενοσ κοπίδι μηδὲ τυμπάνῳ τινὶ μηδὲ πελέκει· (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 5 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a kettledrum

  2. a drum-stick

Related

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

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