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ζήλωμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζήλωμα ζήλωματος

Structure: ζηλωματ (Stem)

Etym.: from zhlo/w

Sense

  1. that which is emulated, high fortunes
  2. emulous efforts, rivalries

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

  • ὦ τλῆμον, εἰ τέθνηκασ, ἐξ οἱών καλῶν ἔρρεισ, Ὀρέστα, καὶ πατρὸσ ζηλωμάτων ‐ τὰ τῆσ θεοῦ δὲ μέμφομαι σοφίσματα, ἥτισ βροτῶν μὲν ἤν τισ ἅψηται φόνου, ἢ καὶ λοχείασ ἢ νεκροῦ θίγῃ χεροῖν, βωμῶν ἀπείργει, μυσαρὸν ὡσ ἡγουμένη, αὐτὴ δὲ θυσίαισ ἥδεται βροτοκτόνοισ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 8:1)

Related

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

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