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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ζεῦγος ζεύγει ζεύγη
Genitive ζεύγους ζεύγοιν ζευγέων
Dative ζεύγει ζεύγοιν ζεύγεσιν*
Accusative ζεῦγος ζεύγει ζεύγη
Vocative ζεῦγος ζεύγει ζεύγη

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

  • ἢ πᾶσαν μὲν ἐβούλοντο κοσμεῖν ἀεὶ καὶ τιμᾶν ἑορτὴν τοὺσ πολίτασ παρόντασ, μάλιστα δὲ τὴν ἐπὶ τῷ συνοικισμῷ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀγομένην ἵν’ οὖν τὴν πόλιν, ἧσ ἐστιν ἡ ἑορτή, μὴ ἀπολείπωσιν, οὐκ ἐφεῖτο χρῆσθαι ζεύγεσιν ἐκείνην τὴν ἡμέραν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 69 2:1)
  • ἵν’ οὖν τὴν πόλιν, ἧσ ἐστιν ἡ ἑορτή, μὴ ἀπολείπωσιν, οὐκ ἐφεῖτο χρῆσθαι ζεύγεσιν ἐκείνην τὴν ἡμέραν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 69 4:2)
  • ἡ δὲ ἐσ Τιτάνην ὁδὸσ σταδίων μέν ἐστιν ἑξήκοντα καὶ ζεύγεσιν ἄβατοσ διὰ στενότητα· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 11 6:4)
  • καὶ ἡ μὲν διὰ τοῦ Ποινίνου λεγομένου φέρεται ζεύγεσιν οὐ βατὴ κατὰ τὰ ἄκρα τῶν Ἄλπεων, ἡ δὲ διὰ Κεντρώνων δυσμικωτέρα. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 6 14:4)

Synonyms

  1. the carriage drawn by a pair

  2. a pair or couple

Related

Similar forms

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

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