Ancient Greek Dictionary

  - Greek-English Dictionary
Ancient Greek Dictionary  - Greek-English Dictionary  - Korean-Greek Dictionary  - Dictionary Indices
Ancient Greek Dictionary

Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ὑπερθύριον?

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration: hyperthyrion

Principal Part: ὑπερθύριον ὑπερθύριου

Structure: ὑπερθυρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: θύρα

Sense

  1. the lintel of a door or gate

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὑπερθύριον ὑπερθυρίω ὑπερθύρια
Genitive ὑπερθυρίου ὑπερθυρίοιν ὑπερθυρίων
Dative ὑπερθυρίῳ ὑπερθυρίοιν ὑπερθυρίοις
Accusative ὑπερθύριον ὑπερθυρίω ὑπερθύρια
Vocative ὑπερθύριον ὑπερθυρίω ὑπερθύρια

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

  • χρύσειαι δέ μιν εἶχον ὑπερθυρίοις ἀραρυῖαι ἑπτὰ πύλαι: (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 25:15)
  • σταθμοὶ δ ἀργύρεοι ἐν χαλκέῳ ἕστασαν οὐδῷ, ἀργύρεον δ ἐφ ὑπερθύριον, χρυσέη δὲ κορώνη. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 7 9:7)
  • θύρας δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς εἰσόδου σὺν τοῖς ὑπερθυρίοις ἴσον ἐχούσας τῷ ναῷ ποικίλοις ἐμπετάσμασιν κεκόσμητο, τὰ μὲν ἄνθη ἁλουργέσιν, κίονας δὲ ἐνυφασμένους. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 15 468:1)

Synonyms

  1. the lintel of a door or gate

Similar forms

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

Find this word at Perseus Greek Word Study Tool

SEARCH

MENU NAVIGATION