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δοκός

Second declension Noun; Masc/Fem 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δοκός δοκοῦ

Structure: δοκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: de/xomai

Sense

  1. the main beam, especially in a house
  2. beam

Declension

Second 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

  • δοκοὶ οἴκων ἡμῶν κέδροι, φατνώματα ἡμῶν κυπάρισσοι. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 1:17)
  • καὶ γὰρ ὅταν ἐμπέσῃ εἰσ οἰκίαν θεῶν ξυλίων ἢ περιχεύσων ἢ περιαργύρων πῦρ, οἱ μὲν ἱερεῖσ αὐτῶν φεύξονται καὶ διασωθήσονται, αὐτοὶ δὲ ὥσπερ δοκοὶ μέσοι κατακαυθήσονται. (Septuagint, Litterae Ieremiae 1:55)
  • εἰ δὲ μή εἰσι, δοκοί εἰσιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 42 4:4)
  • ἔμπησ μοι τοῖχοι μεγάρων καλαί τε μεσόδμαι, εἰλάτιναί τε δοκοί, καὶ κίονεσ ὑψόσ’ ἔχοντεσ φαίνοντ’ ὀφθαλμοῖσ ὡσ εἰ πυρὸσ αἰθομένοιο. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 19 8:2)
  • τὰσ δ’ ὀροφὰσ κατεστέγαζον λίθιναι δοκοί, τὸ μὲν μῆκοσ σὺν ταῖσ ἐπιβολαῖσ ἔχουσαι ποδῶν ἑκκαίδεκα, τὸ δὲ πλάτοσ τεττάρων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 2, chapter 10 4:2)
  • χρόνῳ δ’, ἵν’ ἡμῖν δρᾶν τι δὴ δοκοῖ πλέον, ἀνωλόλυξε καὶ κατῇδε βάρβαρα μέλη μαγεύουσ’, ὡσ φόνον νίζουσα δή. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 2:3)
  • ἔπειτα μέντοι εἶπεν ὅτι οἷ δοκοῖ σωφροσύνη εἶναι τὸ κοσμίωσ πάντα πράττειν καὶ ἡσυχῇ, ἔν τε ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ βαδίζειν καὶ διαλέγεσθαι, καὶ τὰ ἄλλα πάντα ὡσαύτωσ ποιεῖν. (Plato, Alcibiades 1, Alcibiades 2, Hipparchus, Lovers, Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis, 89:2)

Synonyms

  1. beam

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