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τύρσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τύρσις τύρσεως

Structure: τυρσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a tower

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative τύρσις τύρσει τύρσεις
Genitive τύρσεως τύρσοιν τύρσεων
Dative τύρσει τύρσοιν τύρσεσιν*
Accusative τύρσιν τύρσει τύρσεις
Vocative τύρσι τύρσει τύρσεις

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

  • τύρσεισ γὰρ καὶ παρὰ Τυρρηνοῖσ αἱ ἐντείχιοι καὶ στεγαναὶ οἰκήσεισ ὀνομάζονται ὥσπερ παρ’ Ἕλλησιν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 26 3:2)
  • εἰσ δὲ ἣν ἀφίκοντο κώμην μεγάλη τε ἦν καὶ βασίλειον εἶχε τῷ σατράπῃ καὶ ἐπὶ ταῖσ πλείσταισ οἰκίαισ τύρσεισ ἐπῆσαν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 3:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ μαχόμενοι οὐκ ἐδύναντο λαβεῖν τὸ χωρίον καὶ γὰρ τάφροσ ἦν περὶ αὐτὸ εὐρεῖα ἀναβεβλημένη καὶ σκόλοπεσ ἐπὶ τῆσ ἀναβολῆσ καὶ τύρσεισ πυκναὶ ξύλιναι πεποιημέναι, ἀπιέναι δὴ ἐπεχείρουν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 2 7:1)
  • ὑπὸ δὲ τοῦ πλήθουσ τῶν βελῶν ἔλιπον οἱ πολέμιοι τά τε σταυρώματα καὶ τὰσ τύρσεισ· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 2 17:1)
  • καὶ κατεκαύθη πᾶσα ἡ πόλισ καὶ αἱ οἰκίαι καὶ αἱ τύρσεισ καὶ τὰ σταυρώματα καὶ τἆλλα πάντα πλὴν τῆσ ἄκρασ. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 2 29:2)

Synonyms

  1. a tower

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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