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ὡρολόγιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὡρολόγιον

Structure: ὡρολογι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Sense

  1. (Koine Greek) mechanism for telling the time

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

  • ἔπειθ’ ἑώθεν περιάγεισ τὴν λήκυθον καταμανθάνων τοὔλαιον, ὥστε περιφέρειν ὡρολόγιον δόξεισ τι,1 οὐχὶ λήκυθον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 55 4:5)
  • λέγεται δὲ Πλάτωνα μικράν τινα ἔννοιαν δοῦναι τοῦ κατασκευάσματοσ νυκτερινὸν ποιήσαντα ὡρολόγιον ἐοικὸσ τῷ ὑδραυλικῷ οἱο͂ν κλεψύδραν μεγάλην λίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 75 2:3)
  • εἰσ ὡρολόγιον ὠρανὸν ἁ χωροῖσα σοφὰ λίθοσ, ἁ διὰ τυτθοῦ γνώμονοσ ἀελίῳ παντὶ μερισδομένα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7801)
  • εἰσ ὡρολόγιον ἐνθάδε μιστύλλουσι δρόμον Φαεθοντίδοσ αἴγλησ ἀνέρεσ ὡράων ἀμφὶ δυωδεκάδι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7821)
  • εἰσ ὡρολόγιον κῆποσ ἐήν ὅδε χῶροσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 8061)

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