Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dró.mos/ → /ˈðro.mos/ → /ˈðro.mos/
Noun
δρόμος • (drómos) m (genitive δρόμου); second declension (Epic, Attic, Ionic, Doric, Koine)
- race, running
- racetrack
- course, path
- 93/94, Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 1, 31, in Henry St. John Thackeray (tr. & ed.), Josephus with an English translation, vol. 4 (Jewish Antiquities, books I–IV), LCL, pages 14-17. Translation by Thackeray.
τῇ τετάρτῃ δὲ διακοσμεῖ τὸν οὐρανὸν ἡλίῳ καὶ σελήνῃ καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις ἄστροις κινήσεις αὐτοῖς ἐπιστείλας καὶ δρόμους, οἷς ἂν αἱ τῶν ὡρῶν περιφοραὶ σημαίνοιντο.- têi tetártēi dè diakosmeî tòn ouranòn hēlíōi kaì selḗnēi kaì toîs állois ástrois kinḗseis autoîs episteílas kaì drómous, hoîs àn hai tôn hōrôn periphoraì sēmaínointo.
- On the fourth he adorned the heaven with sun and moon and the other stars, prescribing their motions and courses to indicate the revolutions of the seasons.
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Further reading
- “δρόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “δρόμος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “δρόμος”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- δρόμος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- δρόμος in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- δρόμος in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “δρόμος”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1408 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- δρόμος in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- canter idem, page 111.
- career idem, page 113.
- charge idem, page 125.
- course idem, page 178.
- dash idem, page 196.
- foot-race idem, page 334.
- gallop idem, page 353.
- heat idem, page 392.
- lap idem, page 476.
- orbit idem, page 578.
- path idem, page 598.
- promenade idem, page 653.
- race idem, page 667.
- racing idem, page 667.
- roaming idem, page 718.
- roving idem, page 723.
- run idem, page 726.
- running idem, page 727.
- rush idem, page 727.
- spurt idem, page 807.
- trot idem, page 896.
- wandering idem, page 961.