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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

  • πολλαὶ δὲ καὶ οὐκ ἀξιούμεναι ἀναμίσγεσθαι τῇσι ἄλλῃσι, οἱᾶ πλούτῳ ὑπερφρονέουσαι, ἐπὶ ζευγέων ἐν καμάρῃσι ἐλάσασαι πρὸσ τὸ ἱρὸν ἑστᾶσι· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 199 2:3)
  • τοῖσι γὰρ μήτε ἄστεα μήτε τείχεα ἡ ἐκτισμένα, ἀλλὰ φερέοικοι ἐόντεσ πάντεσ ἐώσι ἱπποτοξόται, ζῶντεσ μὴ ἀπ’ ἀρότου ἀλλ’ ἀπὸ κτηνέων, οἰκήματα τε σφι ᾖ ἐπὶ ζευγέων, κῶσ οὐκ ἂν εἰήσαν οὗτοι ἄμαχοί τε καὶ ἄποροι προσμίσγειν; (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 46 4:1)

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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