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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

  • Ἀριστοτέλησ δὲ καὶ τὰσ ἀκόνασ τοῦ μολίβδου τήκεσθαί φησι καὶ ῥεῖν ὑπὸ κρύουσ καὶ χειμῶνοσ, ὕδατοσ μόνου πλησιάζοντοσ αὐταῖσ· (Plutarch, De primo frigido, chapter, section 11 3:3)
  • δόξαν ἔχω τιν’ ἐπὶ γλώσσᾳ ἀκόνασ λιγυρᾶσ, ἅ μ’ ἐθέλοντα προσέρπει καλλιρόοισι πνοαῖσ· (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 6 26:1)
  • εἰ δὲ κάπηλόσ ἐστι πονηρίασ καὶ παλιγκάπηλοσ καὶ μεταβολεύσ, καὶ μόνον οὐ ζυγὰ καὶ στάθμ’ ἔχων πάνθ’ ὅσα πώποτ’ ἔπραξεν ἐπώλει, τί τοῦτον, ὦ μάται’, ἀκονᾷσ; (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 54:1)
  • ἦν δέ τισ τόποσ καὶ λίθου λευκοῦ τῷ ἐλέφαντι κατὰ τὴν χρόαν ἐμφεροῦσ ὥσπερ ἀκόνασ τινὰσ οὐ μεγάλασ ἐκφέρων, ἐξ ὧν τὰ λάβια τοῖσ μαχαιρίοισ κατεσκεύαζον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 2 18:9)

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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