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χηραμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χηραμός χηραμοῦ

Structure: χηραμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = xeia/

Sense

  1. a hole, cleft, hollow, hole

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

  • κηλοῦνται μὲν γὰρ ἔλαφοι καὶ ἵπποι σύριγξι καὶ αὐλοῖσ καὶ τοὺσ παγούρουσ ἐκ τῶν χηραμῶν ἀνακαλοῦνται βιαζόμενοι ταῖσ φώτιγξι, καὶ τὴν θρίσσαν ᾀδόντων καὶ κροτούντων ἀναδύεσθαι καὶ προϊέναι λέγουσιν. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 3 23:2)
  • πρὸσ δὲ τῷ ποταμῷ πλατάνων ἐστὶν ἄλσοσ, κοῖλαί τε ὑπὸ παλαιότητοσ αἱ πολλαὶ καὶ ἥκουσαι μεγέθουσ ἐσ τοσοῦτο ὥστε καὶ ἑστιῶνται τῶν χηραμῶν ἐντόσ, καὶ ὁπόσοισ ἂν κατὰ γνώμην ᾖ, καὶ ἐγκαθεύδουσι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a hole

Related

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

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