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ζυγόν

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζυγόν ζυγοῦ

Structure: ζυγ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: cf. zeu/gnumi

Sense

  1. yoke, for joining animals
  2. yoke, burden
  3. in general, anything which joins two pieces together: cross-bar, plank, beam
  4. the balancing beam of a scale; the scale itself
  5. rank (of soldiers)

Declension

Second 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

  • αἳ δ’ ἐσ τὸ πρόσθεν στῆτε πωλικῶν ζυγῶν· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 1:7)
  • ὡσ δ’ ἤλθομεν σῶν περίβολον νεωρίων, Σιδωνίαν ναῦν πρωτόπλουν καθείλκομεν ζυγῶν τε πεντήκοντα κἀρετμῶν μέτρα ἔχουσαν. (Euripides, Helen, episode17)
  • τὸ δὲ τοὺσ διαλεκτικοὺσ μάλιστα συνδέσμων δεῖσθαι πρὸσ τὰσ τῶν ἀξιωμάτων συναφὰσ καὶ συμπλοκὰσ καὶ διαζεύξεισ, ὥσπερ ἡνιόχουσ ζυγῶν, καὶ τὸν ἐν Κύκλωποσ Ὀδυσσέα λύγων πρὸσ τῶν προβάτων οὐ μέροσ λόγου τὸν σύνδεσμον ἀλλ’ ὄργανόν τι συνδετικὸν ἀποφαίνει, καθάπερ ὠνόμασται, καὶ συνεκτικὸν οὐ πάντων ἀλλὰ τῶν οὐχ ἁπλῶσ λεγομένων· (Plutarch, Platonicae quaestiones, chapter 10, section 4 6:1)
  • κρατεῖ δὲ μηχαναῖσ ἀγραύλου θηρὸσ ὀρεσσιβάτα, λασιαύχενά θ’ ἵππον ὀχμάζεται ἀμφὶ λόφον ζυγῶν οὔρειόν τ’ ἀκμῆτα ταῦρον. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • μετὰ δὲ τὴν Σινδικὴν καὶ τὴν Γοργιπίαν ἐπὶ τῇ θαλάττῃ ἡ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν καὶ Ζυγῶν καὶ Ἡνιόχων παραλία τὸ πλέον ἀλίμενοσ καὶ ὀρεινή, τοῦ Καυκάσου μέροσ οὖσα. (Strabo, Geography, Book 11, chapter 2 18:1)

Synonyms

  1. yoke

  2. yoke

  3. the balancing beam of a scale

  4. rank

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