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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

  • ὅσα δ’ ἐπιπλοκὴν ἔχει τοῦ γ εἰσ γ λήγει, τρώγλη, αἴγλη, ζεύγλη. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 125 1:1)
  • ἢ τοῦτο μὲν πολλὴν ἔχει τὴν διατριβὴν ὑπάγειν τοὺσ ἵππουσ τῇ ζεύγλῃ καὶ τὸ ἁρ́μα ἐπισκευάζειν, σὺ δὲ ἀλλὰ δελφῖνά μοί τινα τῶν ὠκέων παράστησον· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 211)
  • καί ῥ’ ὅγε δεξιτεροῖο βοὸσ κέρασ ἄκρον ἐρύσσασ εἷλκεν ἐπικρατέωσ παντὶ σθένει, ὄφρα πελάσσῃ ζεύγλῃ χαλκείῃ, τὸν δ’ ἐν χθονὶ κάββαλεν ὀκλάξ, ῥίμφα ποδὶ κρούσασ πόδα χάλκεον. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 3 21:31)

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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