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Κέκροψ

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κέκροψ Κέκροπος

Structure: Κεκροπ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. Cecropian, Athenian, the Acropolis, Athens, Attica, the Athenians
  2. the Athenians

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Κέκροψ Κέκροπε Κέκροπες
Genitive Κέκροπος Κεκρόποιν Κεκρόπων
Dative Κέκροπι Κεκρόποιν Κέκροψιν*
Accusative Κέκροπα Κέκροπε Κέκροπας
Vocative Κέκροψ Κέκροπε Κέκροπες

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

  • δοκῶ δὲ ἔγωγε Κέκροπι ἡλικίαν τῷ βασιλεύσαντι Ἀθηναίων καὶ Λυκάονι εἶναι τὴν αὐτήν, σοφίᾳ δὲ οὐχ ὁμοίᾳ σφᾶσ ἐσ τὸ θεῖον χρήσασθαι. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 2 3:2)
  • Κεκροπὶ ῥαῖνε λάγυνε πολύδροσον ἰκμάδα Βάκχου, ῥαῖνε· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1341)

Synonyms

  1. the Athenians

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

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