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ὑδρορρόα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑδρορρόα

Structure: ὑδρορρο (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: but in attic also -ro/h

Sense

  1. a water-course, a conduit, canal, sluice, a gutter, spout

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

  • τοσαῦτα λέξασ εἰσ ὑδρορρόαν πεσὼν ἀνίσταταί τε καὶ ξυναντᾷ δραπέταισ λῃστὰσ ἐλαύνων καὶ κατασπέρχων δορί. (Aristophanes, Acharnians, Episode6)
  • ἐντεῦθεν οὐκέτ’ αὐτὸν ἐξεφρίεμεν, ὁ δ’ ἐξεδίδρασκε διά τε τῶν ὑδρορροῶν καὶ τῶν ὀπῶν· (Aristophanes, Wasps, Prologue 3:22)
  • κἂν ἐξίητε τοῦ θέρουσ, ἀπὸ τῶν μὲν ὀφθαλμῶν ὑδρορρόαι δύο ῥέουσι μέλανοσ, ἐκ δὲ τῶν γνάθων ἱδρὼσ ἐπὶ τὸν τράχηλον ἄλοκα μιλτώδη ποιεῖ, ἐπὶ τῷ προσώπῳ δ’ αἱ τρίχεσ φορούμεναι εἴξασι πολιαῖσ, ἀνάπλεῳ ψιμυθίου. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 6 2:2)

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

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