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ἐγκεντρίς

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐγκεντρίς ἐγκεντρίδος

Structure: ἐγκεντριδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ke/ntron

Sense

  1. a sting, a goad

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

  • ὡσ ἔγωγ’ αὐτῶν ὁρῶν δέδοικα τὰσ ἐγκεντρίδασ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Choral, trochees7)
  • εἴ τισ ὑμῶν ὦ θεαταὶ τὴν ἐμὴν ἰδὼν φύσιν εἶτα θαυμάζει μ’ ὁρῶν μέσον διεσφηκωμένον, ἥτισ ἡμῶν ἐστὶν ἡ ’πίνοια τῆσ ἐγκεντρίδοσ, ῥᾳδίωσ ἐγὼ διδάξω, κἂν ἄμουσοσ ᾖ τὸ πρίν. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Parabasis, epirrheme1)
  • ἐγκατερραμμέναι δὲ ἐγκεντρίδεσ, ἵνα τὰ γένη φυλάττωσιν. (Xenophon, Minor Works, , chapter 6 2:5)

Synonyms

  1. a sting

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

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