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ἀγκύριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγκύριον

Structure: ἀγκυρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: a)/gkura의 지소사

Sense

  1. a small anchor

Declension

Second 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

  • τῶν δ’ ἀνδρῶν ἐκκολυμβώντων διὰ τὸν ἀπὸ τῆσ πνιγὸσ φόβον, καὶ τῶν ἀγκυρίων ἀποκαιομένων, διὰ τὸν κλύδωνα συνέκρουον αἱ ναῦσ, καὶ τινὲσ μὲν ὑπ’ ἀλλήλων συντριβόμεναι διεφθείροντο, τινὲσ δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ πνεύματοσ ὠθούμεναι, αἱ πλεῖσται δ’ ὑπὸ τοῦ πυρὸσ ἀπώλλυντο. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 72 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. a small anchor

Related

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

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