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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀγκύριον ἀγκυρίω ἀγκύρια
Genitive ἀγκυρίου ἀγκυρίοιν ἀγκυρίων
Dative ἀγκυρίῳ ἀγκυρίοιν ἀγκυρίοις
Accusative ἀγκύριον ἀγκυρίω ἀγκύρια
Vocative ἀγκύριον ἀγκυρίω ἀγκύρια

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

  • ὅ τε γὰρ ἄντλοσ ἐκκέχυται καὶ ὁ ἱστὸσ ὤρθωται καὶ ἡ ὀθόνη παρακέκρουσται καὶ τῶν κωπῶν ἑκάστη τετρόπωται, κωλύει τε οὐδέν, ὅσον ἐπ’ ἐμοί, τὸ ἀγκύριον ἀνασπάσαντασ ἀποπλεῖν. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 1:2)
  • ἔμβαινε, ἵνα καὶ ἀνιμήσηται ὁ πορθμεὺσ τὸ ἀγκύριον. (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 17:4)
  • ὥστε λύε τὰ ἀπόγεια, τὴν ἀποβάθραν ἀνελώμεθα, τὸ ἀγκύριον ἀνεσπάσθω, πέτασον τὸ ἱστίον, εὔθυνε, ὦ πορθμεῦ, τὸ πηδάλιον· (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 21:3)
  • ὀλίγουσ ἂν εὑρ́οισ ἐν ταῖσ ἑαυτῶν πατρίσι κεκηδευμένουσ, οἱ δὲ πλεῖστοι μηδενὸσ ἀναγκάζοντοσ αὐτοὶ τὸ ἀγκύριον ἀράμενοι μεθωρμίσαντο τοὺσ βίουσ καὶ μετέστησαν οἱ μὲν εἰσ Ἀθήνασ οἱ δ’ ἐξ Ἀθηνῶν. (Plutarch, De exilio, section 13 1:1)
  • "τὴν δ’ ἄλλην ψυχὴν ὥσπερ ἀγκύριον ἐν τῷ σώματι καταλέλοιπασ· (Plutarch, De sera numinis vindicta, section 22 21:3)

Synonyms

  1. a small anchor

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

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