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χαράκωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαράκωμα χαράκωματος

Structure: χαρακωματ (Stem)

Etym.: xarako/w

Sense

  1. a place paled round, an entrenched camp
  2. a palisade, rampart

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

  • τοὺσ δὲ φεύγοντασ ὤσαντεσ πρὸσ τὸ χαράκωμα τραγικωτάτοισ ἐνετύγχανον πάθεσιν. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 27 1:3)
  • ὅτι δὲ οἱ ἐχῖνοι, λέγω δὲ καὶ τοὺσ χερσαίουσ καὶ τοὺσ θαλαττίουσ, καὶ ἑαυτῶν εἰσι φυλακτικοὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ θηρῶντασ, προβαλλόμενοι τὰσ ἀκάνθασ ὥσπερ τι χαράκωμα, Ιὤν ὁ Χῖοσ μαρτυρεῖ ἐν Φοίνικι ἢ Καινεῖ λέγων οὕτωσ ἀλλ’ ἔν τε χέρσῳ τὰσ λέοντοσ ᾔνεσα ἢ τὰσ ἐχίνου μᾶλλον οἰζυρὰσ τέχνασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 7:3)
  • τῇ δὲ Μουνυχίᾳ χαράκωμα καὶ τάφρον περιβαλὼν διὰ μέσου, Μεγάροισ ἐπέπλευσεν ὑπὸ Κασάνδρου φρουρουμένοισ. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 9 2:3)
  • ἐνῆπτον δὲ καὶ τὰσ παρ’ αὐτὸ τὸ χαράκωμα οἰκίασ, ὅπωσ οἱ πολέμιοι ἀμφὶ ταῦτα ἔχοιεν. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 2 28:5)
  • Ὑπερμένησ δέ, ὃσ ἐτύγχανεν ἐπιστολιαφόροσ τῷ Μνασίππῳ ὤν, τό τε ναυτικὸν πᾶν ὅσον ἦν ἐκεῖ συνεπλήρωσε, καὶ περιπλεύσασ πρὸσ τὸ χαράκωμα τὰ πλοῖα πάντα γεμίσασ τῶν τε ἀνδραπόδων καὶ τῶν χρημάτων ἀπέστελλεν· (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 2 27:1)

Synonyms

  1. a palisade

Related

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

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