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ἀκτίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀκτίς ἀκτῖνος

Structure: ἀκτιν (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. ray, beam
  2. (figuratively) brightness, splendor
  3. spoke (of a wheel)

Declension

Third 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

  • πρῶτον Πηλείδησ ἐγένου, μετὰ ταῦτα Μένανδροσ, εἶθ’ ὃσ νῦν φαίνῃ, μετὰ δ’ ἔσσεαι ἡλιὰσ ἀκτίσ, ζήσεισ δ’ ὀγδώκοντ’ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἑκατὸν λυκάβαντασ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 34:2)
  • λαμπρὰ μὲν ἀκτὶσ ἡλίου, κανὼν σαφήσ, ἔβαλλε γαῖαν· (Euripides, Suppliants, episode12)
  • οὐδ’ αὖ θερμὴ πνίγουσ ἡμᾶσ ἀκτὶσ τηλαυγὴσ θάλπει· (Aristophanes, Birds, Parabasis, antistrophe 12)
  • ἀκτὶσ ἀελίου, τί πολύσκοπ’ ἐμήσω θοῶν μᾶτερ ὀμμάτων; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, chapter 7 4:3)
  • ἀκτὶσ ἀελίου, τὸ κάλλιστον ἑπταπύλῳ φανὲν Θήβᾳ τῶν προτέρων φάοσ, ἐφάνθησ ποτ’, ὦ χρυσέασ ἁμέρασ βλέφαρον, Διρκαίων ὑπὲρ ῥεέθρων μολοῦσα, τὸν λεύκασπιν Ἀργόθεν ἐκβάντα φῶτα πανσαγίᾳ φυγάδα πρόδρομον ὀξυτέρῳ κινήσασα χαλινῷ· (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 11)

Synonyms

  1. ray

  2. brightness

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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