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χάραξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χάραξ χάρακος

Structure: χαρακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: xara/ssw

Sense

  1. a pointed stake
  2. a vine-prop or pole
  3. a pale

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

  • εἶτα νῦν ἐξηπάτησεν ἡ χάραξ τὴν ἄμπελον. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Choral, antepirrheme4)
  • συνόδουσ καὶ χάραξ τοῦ μὲν αὐτοῦ γένουσ εἰσί, διαφέρει δ’ ὁ χάραξ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 523)
  • ἦν δὲ καὶ χάραξ κύκλῳ τῆσ νεὼσ σιδηροῦσ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐπιχειροῦντασ ἀναβαίνειν κόρακέσ τε σιδηροῖ κύκλῳ τῆσ νεὼσ, οἳ δι’ ὀργάνων ἀφιέμενοι τὰ τῶν ἐναντίων ἐκράτουν σκάφη καὶ παρέβαλλον εἰσ πληγήν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 43 2:1)
  • ὀρθὸσ ἕστηκεν ὁ χάραξ, τῶν πολεμίων οἱ δέ, καίπερ ὄμβρου πολλοῦ κατέχοντοσ, ὁρμήσαντεσ διεπόρθησαν τὸ στρατόπεδον. (Plutarch, Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata, , section 4 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a pointed stake

  2. a vine-prop or pole

  3. a pale

Related

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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