Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τύρσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: τύρσις τύρσεως

Structure: τυρσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a tower

Declension

Third 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

  • ὠνομάσθαι δ’ ὑφ’ Ἑλλήνων αὐτὸ τῇ προσηγορίᾳ ταύτῃ οὐδὲν κωλύει, καὶ διὰ τὰσ ἐν ταῖσ τύρσεσιν οἰκήσεισ καὶ ἀπ’ ἀνδρὸσ δυνάστου. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 1, chapter 30 3:1)
  • τὰ δ’ ἄκρα τοῖσ προμαχῶσι καὶ ταῖσ τύρσεσιν ἡ περιαυτοῦ κεκόσμητο. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 191:2)
  • ἐτάφη δ’ αὐτοῦ τὸ σῶμα κατὰ τὸν ἀγρὸν τῆσ γυναικὸσ ἐν ταῖσ καλουμέναισ Ἐννέα τύρσεσιν, οὔσαισ τῷ βάρει τῶν ἔργων θαυμασταῖσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xi, chapter 37 16:1)

Synonyms

  1. a tower

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

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