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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

  • "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

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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