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ἐπίκρανον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίκρανον ἐπίκρανου

Structure: ἐπικραν (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: kra/s

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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