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ἀγκύλη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγκύλη

Structure: ἀγκυλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a)/gkos

Sense

  1. a loop or noose
  2. the thong of a javelin, the javelin
  3. a bow-string

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀγκύλη ἀγκύλᾱ ἀγκύλαι
Genitive ἀγκύλης ἀγκύλαιν ἀγκυλῶν
Dative ἀγκύλῃ ἀγκύλαιν ἀγκύλαις
Accusative ἀγκύλην ἀγκύλᾱ ἀγκύλᾱς
Vocative ἀγκύλη ἀγκύλᾱ ἀγκύλαι

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 τὴν μὲν γνώμην τοιαύτην ἔχων ὁ συγγραφεὺσ ἡκέτω μοι, τὴν δὲ φωνὴν καὶ τὴν τῆσ ἑρμηνείασ ἰσχύν, τὴν μὲν σφοδρὰν ἐκείνην καὶ κάρχαρον καὶ συνεχῆ ταῖσ περιόδοισ καὶ ἀγκύλην ταῖσ ἐπιχειρήσεσι καὶ τὴν ἄλλην τῆσ ῥητορείασ δεινότητα μὴ κομιδῇ τεθηγμένοσ ἀρχέσθω τῆσ γραφῆσ, ἀλλ̓ εἰρηνικώτερον διακείμενοσ. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 431)
  • οἱ δὲ ποτηρίου εἶδοσ τὴν ἀγκύλην φασί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 5 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. the thong of a javelin

  2. a bow-string

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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