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χωμάτων (chomaton)

χωμάτων is an Ancient Greek form of χῶμα, meaning “mound, embankment”. It is the genitive plural neuter noun.

Found 36 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Themistocles 16.1: μετὰ δὲ τὴν ναυμαχίαν Ξέρξης μὲν ἔτι θυμομαχῶν πρὸς τὴν ἀπότευξιν ἐπεχείρει διὰ χωμάτων ἐπάγειν τὸ πεζὸν τοῖς Ἕλλησιν εἰς Σαλαμῖνα, ἐμφράξας τὸν διὰ μέσου πόρον· Θεμιστοκλῆς δʼ ἀποπειρώμενος Ἀριστε …

All forms of χῶμα (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.