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ἄγκαλος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄγκαλος

Structure: ἀγκαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)gka/lh

Sense

  1. an armful, bundle

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἄγκαλος ἀγκάλω ά̓γκαλοι
Genitive ἀγκάλου ἀγκάλοιν ἀγκάλων
Dative ἀγκάλῳ ἀγκάλοιν ἀγκάλοις
Accusative ά̓γκαλον ἀγκάλω ἀγκάλους
Vocative ά̓γκαλε ἀγκάλω ά̓γκαλοι

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

  • τῶν τότε συνδήσασ νεοθηλέοσ ἄγκαλον ὕλησ ἀβλαβέωσ ὑπὸ ποσσὶν ἐδήσατο σάνδαλα κοῦφα αὐτοῖσιν πετάλοισι τὰ κύδιμοσ Ἀργειφόντησ ἔσπασε Πιερίηθεν ὁδοιπορίην ἀλεγύνων, οἱᾶ́ τ’ ἐπειγόμενοσ δολιχὴν ὁδόν, αὐτοτροπήσασ. (Anonymous, Homeric Hymns, 8:8)

Synonyms

  1. an armful

Similar forms

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

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