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ψαλίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ψαλίς ψαλίδος

Structure: ψαλιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a pair of scissors
  2. a building with a pointed stone roof, a vault

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

  • θήκην δὲ ὑπὸ γῆσ αὐτοῖσ εἰργασμένην εἶναι ψαλίδα προμήκη λίθων ποτίμων καὶ ἀγήρων εἰσ δύναμιν, ἔχουσαν κλίνασ παρ’ ἀλλήλασ λιθίνασ κειμένασ, οὗ δὴ τὸν μακάριον γεγονότα θέντεσ, κύκλῳ χώσαντεσ, πέριξ δένδρων ἄλσοσ περιφυτεύσουσι πλὴν κώλου ἑνόσ, ὅπωσ ἂν αὔξην ὁ τάφοσ ἔχῃ ταύτην τὴν εἰσ τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον ἐπιδεῆ χώματοσ τοῖσ τιθεμένοισ· (Plato, Laws, book 12 43:2)
  • ἰέναι τε δή τινα ὁδὸν καὶ ἐκδέχεσθαι ψαλίδα πάνυ μακρὰν, ἐν ᾗ καὶ σφόδρα δεῖσαι μὴ ἐπιθεῖντό μοι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 6:20)

Synonyms

  1. a pair of scissors

  2. a building with a pointed stone roof

    • θόλος (a round building with a conical roof, a vaulted chamber)

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

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