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Κρήτη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Κρήτη

Structure: Κρητ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. Crete, Candia

Declension

First 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

  • ἀκούω τινὰ Μίνω Κρῆτα δικάζειν κάτω τὰ τοιαῦτα καί μοι ἀπόκριναί τι καὶ ὑπὲρ ἐκείνου· (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 18:3)
  • εἶτα, ὡσ ἤδη αὐο͂σ ἦν, ἀπολιποῦσα αὐτὸν ἄλλον τινὰ Κρῆτα νεανίσκον τῶν ὑποχρύσων ἐθήρα καὶ μετέβαινεν ἐπ’ ἐκεῖνον καὶ ἤρα ἤδη αὐτοῦ, κἀκεῖνοσ ἐπίστευεν. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 16:1)
  • ἀμελούμενοσ οὖν ὁ Δεινίασ οὐχ ὑπὸ τῆσ Χαρικλείασ μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ ὑπὸ τῶν κολάκων κἀκεῖνοι γὰρ ἐπὶ τὸν Κρῆτα ἤδη τὸν ἐρώμενον μετεληλύθεσαν ^ ἔρχεται παρὰ τὸν Ἀγαθοκλέα καὶ πάλαι εἰδότα ὡσ ἔχοι πονηρῶσ τὰ πράγματα αὐτῷ, καὶ αἰδούμενοσ τὸ πρῶτον ὅμωσ διηγεῖτο πάντα ‐ τὸν ἔρωτα, τὴν ἀπορίαν, τὴν ὑπεροψίαν τῆσ γυναικόσ, τὸν ἀντεραστὴν τὸν Κρῆτα, καὶ τέλοσ ὡσ οὐ βιώσεται μὴ οὐχὶ συνὼν τῇ Χαρικλείᾳ. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 16:2)
  • τὸν οὖν Τιμαγόραν ἢ τὸν ἐκ Γόρτυνοσ Κρῆτα, ὥσ φησι Φαινίασ ὁ περιπατητικόσ, Ἔντιμον, ὃσ ζήλῳ Θεμιστοκλέουσ ἀνέβη ὡσ βασιλέα, τιμῶν Ἀρταξέρξησ σκηνήν τε ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ διαφέρουσαν τὸ κάλλοσ καὶ τὸ μέγεθοσ καὶ κλίνην ἀργυρόποδα, ἔπεμψε δὲ καὶ στρώματα πολυτελῆ καὶ τὸν ὑποστρώσοντα, φάσκων οὐκ ἐπίστασθαι τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ὑποστρωννύειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 31 1:2)

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

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