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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

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)
  • 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

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

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