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ἀκόνη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκόνη

Structure: ἀκον (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a)kh/ I

Sense

  1. a whetstone, hone

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀκόνη ἀκόνᾱ ἀκόναι
Genitive ἀκόνης ἀκόναιν ἀκονῶν
Dative ἀκόνῃ ἀκόναιν ἀκόναις
Accusative ἀκόνην ἀκόνᾱ ἀκόνᾱς
Vocative ἀκόνη ἀκόνᾱ ἀκόναι

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 πρὸσ τὸν ἐρόμενον διὰ τί οὐκ ὢν αὐτὸσ ἱκανὸσ ἄλλουσ ποιεῖ, εἶπεν ὅτι καὶ αἱ ἀκόναι αὐταὶ μὲν τέμνειν οὐ δύνανται τὸν δὲ σίδηρον τμητικὸν ποιοῦσιν. (Plutarch, Vitae decem oratorum, , section 1 36:1)
  • "αἱ ἐάήἶκνι δ’ ἀκόναι καὶ οἱ χάλικεσ λεπτύνουσι τὸ ὕδωρ, ὅ τι θολερὸν καὶ γεῶδεσ ἀναμέμικται, τοῦτο συνάγοντεσ καὶ κατασπῶντεσ ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ, ὥστε λεπτότερον καὶ ἀσθενέστερον τὸ ὕδωρ γενόμενον μᾶλλον ὑπὸ περιψύξεωσ κρατεῖσθαι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 3:9)
  • ὅτι δὲ τὸ ἐκψύχεσθαι οὐ πήγνυσι μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τήκει τὰ σώματα, δῆλόν ἐστιν ἐν μὲν γὰρ τοῖσ μεγάλοισ χειμῶσιν ἀκόναι μολίβδου διατηκόμεναι τό τε τῆσ ἐφιδρώσεωσ καὶ τὸ πολλοῖσ μὴ πεινῶσι συμπίπτειν τὴν βουλιμίασιν ἀραίωσιν κατηγορεῖ μᾶλλον καὶ ῥύσιν ἢ πύκνωσιν τοῦ σώματοσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 31:1)

Synonyms

  1. a whetstone

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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