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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

  • ἀποσταίη ἄρα ὁ ὦμόσ μου ἀπὸ τῆσ κλειδόσ, ὁ δὲ βραχίων μου ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀγκῶνοσ συντριβείη. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 31:22)
  • ἀπὸ ἀληθείασ Θεοῦ καὶ διαθήκησ καὶ ἀπὸ πήξεωσ ἀγκῶνοσ ἐπ̓ ἄρτοισ, (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 41:20)
  • πρὸσ Διόσ, ἐὰν λέγῃ ταῦτα ὁ νεκρὸσ ἐπιστραφείσ, ἀνακλίνασ αὑτὸν ἐπ’ ἀγκῶνοσ, οὐκ ἂν οἰόμεθα δικαιότατα ἂν αὐτὸν εἰπεῖν ; (Lucian, (no name) 18:2)
  • κἀπειδὴ καιρὸσ ἦν, ἐπ’ ἀγκῶνοσ ἐδειπνοῦμεν ἔκειντο δὲ καὶ ὀκλαδίαι καὶ ἀσκάνται. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 6:1)
  • εἰ δὲ καὶ κάμοιμι, χαμαὶ τὸν τρίβωνα ὑποβαλόμενοσ ^ κείσομαι ἐπ’ ἀγκῶνοσ οἱο͂ν τὸν Ἡρακλέα γράφουσιν. (Lucian, Symposium, (no name) 13:4)
  • Ἐπὶ χλόησ εὐθαλοῦσ ἡ Κένταυροσ αὕτη πεποίηται ὅλῃ μὲν τῇ ἵππῳ χαμαὶ κειμένη, καὶ ἀποτέτανται εἰσ τοὐπίσω οἱ πόδεσ, τὸ δὲ γυναικεῖον ὅσον αὐτῆσ ἠρέμα ἐπεγήγερται καὶ ἐπ̓ ἀγκῶνόσ ἐστιν, οἱ δὲ πόδεσ οἱ ἔμπροσθεν οὐκέτι καὶ οὗτοι ἀποτάδην, οἱο͂ν ἐπὶ πλευρὰν κειμένησ, ἀλλ̓ ὁ μὲν ὀκλάζοντι ἐοίκεν ὢν καμπύλοσ ὑπεσταλμένῃ τῇ ὁπῇ, ὁ δὲ ἔμπαλιν ἐπανίσταται καὶ τοῦ ἐδάφουσ ἀντιλαμβάνεται, οἱοῖ́ εἰσιν ἵπποι πειρώμενοι ἀναπηδᾶν. (Lucian, Zeuxis 7:1)

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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