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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

  • λίθουσ ἐλέαναν ὕδατα, καὶ κατέκλυσεν ὕδατα ὕπτια τοῦ χώματοσ τῆσ γῆσ. καὶ ὑπομονὴν ἀνθρώπου ἀπώλεσασ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 14:19)
  • ἦ μετ̓ ἐμοῦ εἰσ ᾅδην καταβήσομαι, ἢ ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐπὶ χώματοσ καταβησόμεθα̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iob 17:16)
  • ὀστᾶ αὐτοῦ ἐνεπλήσθησαν νεότητοσ αὐτοῦ, καὶ μετ̓ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ χώματοσ κοιμηθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 20:11)
  • λαβὼν δ’ Ἀχιλλέωσ παῖσ Πολυξένην χερὸσ ἔστησ’ ἐπ’ ἄκρου χώματοσ, πέλασ δ’ ἐγώ· (Euripides, Hecuba, episode 1:4)
  • ἐλθοῦσα δ’ ἀμφὶ τὸν Κλυταιμήστρασ τάφον μελίκρατ’ ἄφεσ γάλακτοσ οἰνωπόν τ’ ἄχνην, καὶ στᾶσ’ ἐπ’ ἄκρου χώματοσ λέξον τάδε· (Euripides, episode 6:5)

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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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