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ἀμφήκης?

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration: amphēkēs

Principal Part: ἀμφήκης ἀμφήκες

Structure: ἀμφηκη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ἀκή

Sense

  1. two-edged
  2. that will cut both ways, ambiguous

Declension

Third declension
M/F Neuter
SingularNominative ἀμφήκης ἄμφηκες
Genitive ἀμφήκους ἀμφήκους
Dative ἀμφήκει ἀμφήκει
Accusative ἀμφήκη ἄμφηκες
Vocative ἀμφῆκες ἄμφηκες
DualN/A/V ἀμφήκει ἀμφήκει
G/D ἀμφήκοιν ἀμφήκοιν
PluralNominative ἀμφήκεις ἀμφήκη
Genitive ἀμφήκων ἀμφήκων
Dative ἀμφήκεσι(ν) ἀμφήκεσι(ν)
Accusative ἀμφήκεις ἀμφήκη
Vocative ἀμφήκεις ἀμφήκη
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective ἀμφήκης ἀμφήκους ἀμφηκέστερος ἀμφηκεστέρου ἀμφηκέστατος ἀμφηκεστάτου
Adverb ἀμφηκέως ἀμφηκέστερον ἀμφηκέστατα

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

  • παίσω γὰρ ἧπαρ τοὐμὸν ἀμφήκει ξίφει. (Euripides, episode, lyric 3:13)
  • ἆρ ἐκείνου ὃν τῷ Λυδῷ ὁ Πύθιος ἔχρησεν, ὃς ἀκριβῶς ἀμφήκης ἦν καὶ διπρόσωπος, οἱοί῀ εἰσι τῶν Ἑρμῶν ἔνιοι, διττοὶ καὶ ἀμφοτέρωθεν ὅμοιοι πρὸς ὁπότερον ἂν αὐτῶν μέρος ἐπιστραφῇς· (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 43:3)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ ἄν με φλαῦρον ἐργάσαισθ ἔτι, οἱο῀ς ἐμοὶ τρέφεται τοῖσδ ἐνὶ δώμασι παῖς, ἀμφήκει γλώττῃ λάμπων, πρόβολος ἐμός, σωτὴρ δόμοις, ἐχθροῖς βλάβη, λυσανίας πατρῴων μεγάλων κακῶν: (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, lyric3)
  • πρὸς ταῦτ ἐπ ἐμοὶ ῥιπτέσθω μὲν πυρὸς ἀμφήκης βόστρυχος, αἰθὴρ δ ἐρεθιζέσθω βροντῇ σφακέλῳ τ ἀγρίων ἀνέμων: (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode, anapests3)
  • ἐμοὶ δὲ μίμνει σχισμὸς ἀμφήκει δορί. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, antistrophe 63)

Synonyms

  1. two-edged

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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