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ἀγκών

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγκών

Structure: ἀγκων (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)/gkos

Sense

  1. the bend of the arm, the elbow
  2. the arm
  3. any bend, jutting angle, the bend or reach, angle

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ ἓξ ἀναβαθμοὶ τῷ θρόνῳ ἐνδεδεμένοι χρυσίῳ καὶ ἀγκῶνεσ ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν ἐπὶ τοῦ θρόνου τῆσ καθέδρασ, καὶ δύο λέοντεσ ἑστηκότεσ παρὰ τοὺσ ἀγκῶνασ, (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 9:16)
  • καὶ τοὺσ δακτύλουσ καὶ τοὺσ βραχίονασ καὶ τὰ σκέλη καὶ τοὺσ ἀγκῶνασ περιέκλων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 10:6)
  • διώκει δ’ ἐκ παντὸσ τρόπου τὴν περίοδον οὐδὲ ταύτην στρογγύλην καὶ πυκνὴν ἀλλ’ ὑπαγωγικήν τινα καὶ πλατεῖαν καὶ πολλοὺσ ἀγκῶνασ, ὥσπερ οἱ μὴ κατ’ εὐθείασ ῥέοντεσ ποταμοὶ ποιοῦσιν, ἐγκολπιζομένην. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 4 2:1)
  • "φοίνικα δὲ τὸ ὄργανον Ἔφοροσ καὶ Σκάμων ἐν τοῖσ περὶ Εὑρημάτων ὑπὸ Φοινίκων εὑρεθέντα ταύτησ τυχεῖν τῆσ προσηγορίασ, Σῆμοσ δὲ ὁ Δήλιοσ ἐν πρώτῳ Δηλιάδοσ διὰ τὸ ἐκ τοῦ ἐν Δήλῳ φοίνικοσ τοὺσ ἀγκῶνασ αὐτοῦ ἐξειργάσθαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 39 1:13)
  • οἲ ’γώ, φίλοι, πρόστητ’ ἀναγκαίασ τύχησ, καὶ σπεύσαθ’, οἱ μὲν Τεῦκρον ἐν τάχει μολεῖν, οἱ δ’ ἑσπέρουσ ἀγκῶνασ, οἱ δ’ ἀντηλίουσ ζητεῖτ’ ἰόντεσ τἀνδρὸσ ἔξοδον κακήν. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 2:15)

Synonyms

  1. the bend of the arm

  2. the arm

  3. any bend

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

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