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ζεῦγος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζεῦγος ζεῦγεος

Structure: ζευγο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: zeu/gnumi

Sense

  1. a yoke of beasts, a pair of mules, oxen or horses
  2. the carriage drawn by a pair, a chariot, car
  3. a pair or couple

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

  • οὐδ’ ἂν κλέψασα γυνὴ ζεύγει κατὰ πεντήκοντα τάλαντα ἐσ πόλιν ἔλθοι τῶν δημοσίων· (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Parabasis, parabasis18)
  • ἀνάγ[κη γάρ], ὦ ἄνδρεσ δικ[ασταί,] πρῶτον μὲν ὀρεωκόμον καὶ προηγητὴν ἀκολουθε[ῖν] τῷ ζεύγει, ὃ ἦγεν τὴν γυναῖκα, ἔπειτα δὲ παῖδασ τοὺσ προπέμποντασ αὐτὴν ἀκολουθεῖν καὶ Διώξιππον· (Hyperides, Speeches, 12:1)
  • καὶ Πλάτων αὐτὸσ εἰκάσασ συμφύτῳ ζεύγει καὶ ἡνιόχῳ τὸ τῆσ ψυχῆσ εἶδοσ, ἡνίοχον μέν, ὡσ παντὶ δῆλον, ἀπέφηνε τὸ λογιστικόν· (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 9, section 1 12:1)
  • οὐκ ἔσθ’ ὅτι μᾶλλον, ὦ ἄνδρεσ Ἀθηναῖοι, πρέπει οὕτωσ ὡσ τὸν τοιοῦτον ἄνδρα ἐν πρυτανείῳ σιτεῖσθαι, πολύ γε μᾶλλον ἢ εἴ τισ ὑμῶν ἵππῳ ἢ συνωρίδι ἢ ζεύγει νενίκηκεν Ὀλυμπίασιν· (Plato, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, 185:4)
  • σκληρά, ἔφην ἐγώ, ἡ γῆ ἔσται κινεῖν τῷ ζεύγει. (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 16 12:5)

Synonyms

  1. the carriage drawn by a pair

  2. a pair or couple

Related

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

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