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ζεύγλη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζεύγλη

Structure: ζευγλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. the strap or loop of the yoke
  2. the cross-bar

Declension

First 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

  • Λὰξ ἐπίβα δήηῳ κενεόφρονι, τύπτε δὲ κέντρῳ ὀξέϊ, καὶ ζεύγλην δύσλοφον ἀμφιτίθει· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 1386-1389465)
  • εἰσ τὸ αὐτό εἰσορόων με λέων χαίνει στόμα, χερσὶ δ’ ἀείρει γειοπόνοσ ζεύγλην, ἀγρονόμοσ κορύνην. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 7971)
  • ἐκκληιόμενοι δὲ τῇ ὡρ́ῃ οἱ νεηνίαι ὑποδύντεσ αὐτοὶ ὑπὸ τὴν ζεύγλην εἷλκον τὴν ἅμαξαν, ἐπὶ τῆσ ἁμάξησ δέ σφι ὠχέετο ἡ μήτηρ· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 31 3:4)
  • βουσὶν ἀροῦν τὴν γῆν, καὶ μηδὲν τῶν ἑτέρων ζῴων [σὺν αὐτοῖσ] ὑπὸ ζεύγλην ἄγοντασ, ἀλλὰ κατ’ οἰκεῖα γένη κἀκείνοισ ποιεῖσθαι τὸν ἄροτον. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 295:3)

Synonyms

  1. the cross-bar

Derived

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

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