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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

  • Κορνιφίκιοσ δὲ καὶ ὅσοι ἄλλοι στρατηγοὶ ἦσαν αὐτοῦ, παρακαλέσαντεσ ἀλλήλουσ, ἄνευ προστάγματοσ ἀπέρρηξαν τὰ ἀγκύρια καὶ ἀνήχθησαν ἐπὶ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ, ὡσ δέον τι δρῶντασ παθεῖν μᾶλλον ἢ ἑστῶτασ ἀμαχεὶ τοῖσ ἐπιχειροῦσι προκεῖσθαι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 9 10:2)

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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