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ὑπέκκαυμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπέκκαυμα ὑπέκκαυματος

Structure: ὑπεκκαυματ (Stem)

Etym.: e)kkai/w

Sense

  1. combustible matter, fuel, an incentive

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

  • "ἣν δ’ Ἀμμώνιοσ ἡμῖν αὐτὸσ ἐξηγεῖτο δύναμιν, ᾐνίξατο μὲν Ἡσίοδοσ εἰπών οὐδ’ ὅσον ἐν μαλάχῃ τε καὶ ἀσφοδέλῳ μέγ’ ὄνειαρ ἔργῳ δ’ ἐμφανῆ παρέσχεν Ἐπιμενίδησ, διδάξασ ὅτι μικρῷ παντάπασιν ἡ φύσισ ὑπεκκαύματι ζωπυρεῖ καὶ συνέχει τὸ ζῷον, ἂν ὅσον ἐλαίασ μέγεθοσ λάβῃ, μηδεμιᾶσ ἔτι τροφῆσ δεόμενον. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 2537)
  • εὔφλεκτα δὲ τὰ πρόθυρα αὐτῶν, φοίνικοσ μὲν αἱ θύραι πεποιημέναι, ἀσφάλτῳ δὲ ὑπεκκαύματι κεχριμέναι. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 26:3)

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

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