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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

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

  • "μηδαμῶσ ἀφανίσῃσ μηδ’ ἀνέλῃσ τὴν ἀκόνην τῶν νέων. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 26 1:1)
  • "μηδαμῶσ ἀφανίσῃσ μηδ’ ἀνέλῃσ τὴν ἀκόνην τῶν νέων. (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 26 2:1)
  • γελάσασ δ’ ὁ Ταρκύνιοσ ἐπὶ τῷ λόγῳ καὶ προενέγκασ ἐκ τοῦ κόλπου ξυρὸν καὶ ἀκόνην λέγει πρὸσ αὐτόν, ἑάλωκασ, ὦ Νέβιε, φενακίζων ἡμᾶσ καὶ καταψευδόμενοσ τοῦ δαιμονίου καταφανῶσ, ὁπότε καὶ τὰσ ἀδυνάτουσ πράξεισ τετόλμηκασ λέγειν δυνατάσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 71 5:1)
  • ἔγωγ’ οὖν διεμαντευόμην, εἰ τῷ ξυρῷ τῷδε τὴν ἀκόνην πλήξασ μέσην δυνήσομαι διελεῖν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 71 5:2)
  • γέλωτοσ δ’ ἐξ ἁπάντων γενομένου τῶν περὶ τὸ βῆμα οὐθὲν ἐπιταραχθεὶσ ὁ Νέβιοσ ὑπὸ τοῦ τωθασμοῦ τε καὶ τοῦ θορύβου, παῖε θαρρῶν, ἔφη, Ταρκύνιε, τὴν ἀκόνην, ὡσ προαιρῇ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 71 6:1)

Synonyms

  1. a whetstone

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

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