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ὑπερθύριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑπερθύριον ὑπερθύριου

Structure: ὑπερθυρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: qu/ra

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.

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