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ἄκανθα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκανθα ἀκάνθης

Structure: ἀκανθ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: a)kh/ I

Sense

  1. A thorny plant
  2. A thorn, spine, or prickle
  3. (figuratively) Something difficult or painful.

Declension

First 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

  • ὅτι ἡμέρασ καὶ νυκτὸσ ἐβαρύνθη ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ ἡ χείρ σου, ἐστράφην εἰσ ταλαιπωρίαν ἐν τῷ ἐμπαγῆναί μοι ἄκανθαν. . (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 31:4)
  • καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνη πᾶσ τόποσ, οὗ ἐὰν ὦσι χίλιαι ἄμπελοι χιλίων σίκλων, εἰσ χέρσον ἔσονται καὶ εἰσ ἄκανθαν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 7:23)
  • οἴμοι κεφαλῆσ, οἴμοι κροτάφων πλευρῶν θ’, ὥσ μοι πόθοσ εἱλίξαι καὶ διαδοῦναι νῶτον ἄκανθάν τ’ εἰσ ἀμφοτέρουσ τοίχουσ, μελέων ἐπὶ τοὺσ αἰεὶ δακρύων ἐλέγουσ. (Euripides, The Trojan Women, choral, anapests13)
  • ὅμωσ δὲ πρόσ γε τοὺσ φίλουσ ἐξελκτέον διπλῆν ἄκανθαν καὶ παλίρροπον γόνυ. (Euripides, episode3)
  • τὴν ἄκανθαν ἐξελε. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Lyric-Scene, iambics68)

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