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ἐπίκρανον?

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration: epikranon

Principal Part: ἐπίκρανον ἐπίκρανου

Structure: ἐπικραν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: κράς

Sense

  1. that which is put on the head, a head-dress, cap
  2. the capital

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπίκρανον ἐπικράνω ἐπίκρανα
Genitive ἐπικράνου ἐπικράνοιν ἐπικράνων
Dative ἐπικράνῳ ἐπικράνοιν ἐπικράνοις
Accusative ἐπίκρανον ἐπικράνω ἐπίκρανα
Vocative ἐπίκρανον ἐπικράνω ἐπίκρανα

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

  • μόνος λελεῖφθαι στῦλος εἷς ἔδοξέ μοι δόμων πατρῴων, ἐκ δ ἐπικράνων κόμας ξανθὰς καθεῖναι, φθέγμα δ ἀνθρώπου λαβεῖν, κἀγὼ τέχνην τήνδ ἣν ἔχω ξενοκτόνον τιμῶς ὑδραίνειν αὐτὸν ὡς θανούμενον, κλαίουσα. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 3:3)
  • τούτου τὸ σχῆμα τοιόνδε βαρύ μοι κεφαλᾶς ἐπίκρανον ἔχειν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 1725)
  • ἀλλ ἁ Κοιογενὴς ὁπότ ὠδίνεσσι θύοις ἀγχιτόκοις ἐπέβα νιν, δὴ τότε τέσσαρες ὀρθαὶ πρέμνων ἀπώρουσαν χθονίων, ἂν δ ἐπικράνοις σχέθον πέτραν ἀδαμαντοπέδιλοι κίονες: (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 5 4:7)

Synonyms

  1. the capital

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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