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ἄκνηστις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκνηστις

Structure: ἀκνηστι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. the spine or backbone

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἄκνηστις ἀκνήστει ἀκνήστεις
Genitive ἀκνήστεως ἀκνήστοιν ἀκνήστεων
Dative ἀκνήστει ἀκνήστοιν ἀκνήστεσιν*
Accusative ά̓κνηστιν ἀκνήστει ἀκνήστεις
Vocative ά̓κνηστι ἀκνήστει ἀκνήστεις

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

  • ἀπὸ κρατὸσ δὲ κελαινὴν ἄχρισ ἐπ’ ἄκνηστιν κεῖτ’ ἄπνοοσ· (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 4 22:20)
  • τὸν δ’ ἐγὼ ἐκβαίνοντα κατ’ ἄκνηστιν μέσα νῶτα πλῆξα· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 10 14:14)

Synonyms

  1. the spine or backbone

    • ῥάχις (the lower part of the back, the chine, the spine or backbone)

Similar forms

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

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