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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

  • καὶ ἀνέστη μέσησ τῆσ νυκτὸσ καὶ ἔλαβε τὸν υἱόν μου ἐκ τῶν ἀγκαλῶν μου καὶ ἐκοίμισεν αὐτὸν ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ αὐτῆσ καὶ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτῆσ τὸν τεθνηκότα ἐκοίμισεν ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ μου. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 3:20)
  • τῶν γὰρ γινομένων αὐτῇ παίδων ἁπάντων τελευτώντων βαρυθυμοῦσαν ἐπὶ τῷ πάθει καὶ φθονοῦσαν ταῖσ τῶν ἄλλων γυναικῶν εὐτεκνίαισ κελεύειν ἐκ τῶν ἀγκαλῶν ἐξαρπάζεσθαι τὰ βρέφη καὶ παραχρῆμα ἀποκτέννειν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 41 3:3)

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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