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ἀράχνης

First declension Noun; Masculine 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀράχνης

Structure: ἀραχν (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a spider

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

  • λεπτὸν ὑφηναμένα ῥαδινοῖσ ὑπὸ ποσσὶν ἀράχνα τέττιγα σκολιαῖσ ἔνδετον εἶχε πάγαισ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3721)
  • ὠὰ ἀσπίδων ἔρρηξαν καὶ ἱστὸν ἀράχνησ ὑφαίνουσι. καὶ ὁ μέλλων τῶν ὠῶν αὐτῶν φαγεῖν συντρίψασ οὔριον εὗρε, καὶ ἐν αὐτῷ βασιλίσκοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 59:5)
  • τῇ γάρ τοι νῇ νήματ’ ἀερσιπότητοσ ἀράχνησ ἤματοσ ἐκ πλείου, ὅτε ἴδρισ σωρὸν ἀμᾶται· (Hesiod, Works and Days, Book WD 94:7)
  • "ἔχουσι γὰρ ἀμφότεροι τηνικαῦτα παρὰ τὰ πτερύγια οἱονεὶ σκωλήκιον τὸν καλούμενον οἶστρον, ὅμοιον μὲν σκορπίῳ, μέγεθοσ δ’ ἡλίκον ἀράχνησ, τοῦτο δὲ ποιεῖ αὐτοὺσ ἐξάλλεσθαι οὐκ ἔλαττον τοῦ δελφῖνοσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 644)
  • γελοῖοι δ’ ἴσωσ ἐσμὲν ἐπὶ τῷ μανθάνειν τὰ ζῷα σεμνύνοντεσ, ὧν ὁ Δημόκριτοσ ἀποφαίνει μαθητὰσ ἐν τοῖσ μεγίστοισ γεγονότασ ἡμᾶσ ἀράχνησ ἐν ὑφαντικῇ καὶ ἀκεστικῇ, χελιδόνοσ ἐν οἰκοδομίᾳ καὶ τῶν λιγυρῶν, κύκνου καὶ ἀηδόνοσ, ἐν ᾠδῇ κατὰ μίμησιν. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 201)
  • κεῖσαι δ’ ἀράχνησ ἐν ὑφάσματι τῷδ’ ἀσεβεῖ θανάτῳ βίον ἐκπνέων. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, ephymn. 2 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. a spider

Related

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

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