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χόρτος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χόρτος χόρτου

Structure: χορτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. feeding place for animals, barn, pasture
  2. foodstuff for animals, hay, grass
  3. food in general

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

  • ἦ ὡσ φύλλον κινούμενον ὑπὸ ἀνέμου εὐλαβηθήσῃ ἢ ὡσ χόρτῳ φερομένῳ ὑπὸ πνεύματοσ ἀντίκεισαί μοι̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iob 13:25)
  • βασιλέωσ ἀπειλὴ ὁμοία βρυγμῷ λέοντοσ, ὥσπερ δὲ δρόσοσ ἐπὶ χόρτῳ, οὕτωσ τὸ ἱλαρὸν αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 19:10)
  • πλὴν τὴν φυὴν τῶν ριζῶν αὐτοῦ ἐν τῇ γῇ ἐάσατε καὶ ἐν δεσμῷ σιδηρῷ καὶ χαλκῷ καὶ ἐν τῇ χλόῃ τῇ ἔξω, καὶ ἐν τῇ δρόσῳ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κοιτασθήσεται, καὶ μετὰ τῶν θηρίων ἡ μερὶσ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ χόρτῳ τῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 4:12)
  • Ὅμηροσ δὲ τὴν αὐλὴν ἀεὶ τάττει ἐπὶ τῶν ὑπαίθρων τόπων, ἔνθα ἦν ὁ τοῦ ἑρκείου Ζηνὸσ βωμόσ, ὁ μέντοι γε Πηλεὺσ καταλαμβάνεται αὐλῆσ ἐν χόρτῳ ἔχε δὲ χρύσειον ἄλεισον, σπένδων αἴθοπα οἶνον ἐπ’ αἰθομένοισ1’ ἱεροῖσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 15 3:3)
  • ὁ γοῦν πλεῖστα πράγματα παρασχὼν τοῖσ καθ’ αὑτὸν ἄρχουσι καί δημαγωγοῖσ, Σικίννιοσ, πρὸσ τὸν εἰπόντα τί δὴ μόνον οὐ σπαράττει τὸν Κράσσον, ἀλλὰ παρίησι, χόρτον αὑτὸν ἔχειν ἔφησεν ἐπὶ τοῦ κέρατοσ, εἰώθεισαν δὲ Ῥωμαῖοι τὸν κυρίττοντα τῶν βοῶν ὑπὲρ τοῦ φυλάττεσθαι τοὺσ ἐντυγχάνοντασ χόρτῳ περιελίσσειν τὸ κέρασ. (Plutarch, chapter 7 9:2)

Synonyms

  1. foodstuff for animals

  2. food in general

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