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χῶμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χῶμα χῶματος

Structure: χωματ (Stem)

Etym.: xo/w

Sense

  1. earth thrown up, a bank, mound, a dike, a dam, a mole or pier

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

  • χώματα μὲν γὰρ καὶ πυραμίδεσ καὶ στῆλαι καὶ ἐπιγράμματα πρὸσ ὀλίγον διαρκοῦντα πῶσ οὐ περιττὰ καὶ παιδιαῖσ προσεοικότα ; (Lucian, (no name) 20:1)
  • πλὴν τὰ πρὸ τῶν πόλεων ἐκεῖνα τὰ χώματα ὁρᾷσ καὶ τὰσ στήλασ καὶ πυραμίδασ; (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 22:3)
  • ἃ φθιμένουσ παῖδασ ἐμοὺσ οὔτε δόμοισ προθέμαν οὔτε τάφων χώματα γαίασ ἐσορῶ. (Euripides, Suppliants, choral, antistrophe 13)
  • ἴδοισ δ’ ἂν καὶ τῆσ Πελοποννήσου πανταχοῦ, μάλιστα δὲ ἐν Λακεδαίμονι χώματα μεγάλα, ἃ καλοῦσι τάφουσ τῶν μετὰ Πέλοποσ Φρυγῶν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 21 1:2)
  • ῥᾳδιουργεῖν χώματα καὶ μνήματα τῶν ἐπιγινομένων ἕνεκ’ ἀνθρώπων κατασκευάζοντεσ, ἐν τοῖσ ἐπιφανεστάτοισ καὶ μεγίστοισ ἀναθήμασι τὴν δόξαν αὑτῶν καθιερουμένην ὁρῶντεσ; (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 42 22:1)

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

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