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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

  • ὄνομ’, οὐκ ἔργον, παρέχων Ἀχιλεὺσ οὐκ οἶδε γάμουσ, οὐδ’ ὅ τι πράσσομεν, οὐδ’ ὅτι κείνῳ παῖδ’ ἐπεφήμισα νυμφείουσ εἰσ ἀγκώνων εὐνὰσ ἐκδώσειν λέκτροισ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, anapests 1:10)
  • ἐπειδὰν ἀδικηθείσ τισ πρὸσ ἑτέρου, ἀμύνασθαι βουλόμενοσ, ἴδῃ καθ’ ἑαυτὸν οὐκ ἀξιόμαχοσ ὤν, βοῦν ἱερεύσασ τὰ μὲν κρέα κατακόψασ ἥψησεν, αὐτὸσ δὲ ἐκπετάσασ χαμαὶ τὴν βύρσαν κάθηται ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ, εἰσ τοὐπίσω παραγαγὼν ^ τὼ χεῖρε ὥσπερ οἱ ἐκ τῶν ἀγκώνων δεδεμένοι. (Lucian, Toxaris vel amicitia, (no name) 47:2)
  • Πρὸσ ἑωυτὸν δὲ, καθημένῳ πόδεσ ἐσ τὴν ἄνω ἴξιν κατ’ ἰθὺ γούνασιν‧ διάστασιν δὲ, ὀλίγον ξυμβεβῶτεσ‧ γούνατα δὲ ἀνωτέρω βουβώνων σμικρὸν, διάστασιν δὲ, ἀγκώνων θέσει καὶ παραθέσει. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., KAT' IHTREION., 3.7)
  • ὕψοσ δὲ τούτων ἐστὶ μέχρι τῶν ἀγκώνων, ὡσ δύνωνται ἡνιοχεῖσθαι οἱ ἵπποι ὑπὲρ τῶν δίφρων· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 1 35:5)
  • τοῦτο μὲν δὴ μεταξὺ τῆσ τελευτῆσ τῶν λεχθέντων ἀγκώνων εἶναι, τὸ δὲ παλαιὸν κτίσμα μεταξὺ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ· (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 60:3)

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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