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ἐχῖνος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐχῖνος ἐχίνου

Structure: ἐχιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hedgehog
  2. sea urchin
  3. shell of a sea urchin
  4. jug, cup, vase
  5. The shell of certain nuts, such as the chestnut
  6. The third stomach of ruminants (the omasum)
  7. The moulding atop the Doric capital

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

  • ὅτι δὲ οἱ ἐχῖνοι, λέγω δὲ καὶ τοὺσ χερσαίουσ καὶ τοὺσ θαλαττίουσ, καὶ ἑαυτῶν εἰσι φυλακτικοὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ θηρῶντασ, προβαλλόμενοι τὰσ ἀκάνθασ ὥσπερ τι χαράκωμα, Ιὤν ὁ Χῖοσ μαρτυρεῖ ἐν Φοίνικι ἢ Καινεῖ λέγων οὕτωσ ἀλλ’ ἔν τε χέρσῳ τὰσ λέοντοσ ᾔνεσα ἢ τὰσ ἐχίνου μᾶλλον οἰζυρὰσ τέχνασ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 7:3)
  • ἀλλὰ μὴν ἐχίνου γέ τινα χερσαίου διηγήσατο πρόγνωσιν Ἀριστοτέλησ πνευμάτων, ὃσ ἐθαύμαζε καὶ γεράνων τὴν ἐν τριγώνῳ πτῆσιν. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 281)
  • Ὠρεοῦ δὲ τὸ πρὸσ θαλάττῃ τεῖχοσ καὶ τῶν οἰκιῶν περὶ ἑπτακοσίασ συμπεσεῖν, Ἐχίνου τε καὶ Φαλάρων καὶ Ἡρακλείασ τῆσ Τραχῖνοσ, τῶν μὲν πολὺ μέροσ πεσεῖν, Φαλάρων δὲ καὶ ἐξ ἐδάφουσ ἀνατραπῆναι τὸ κτίσμα. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 3 40:2)
  • " οἱ μὲν οὖν Αἰνιᾶνεσ οἱ πλείουσ εἰσ τὴν Οἴτην ἐξηλάθησαν ὑπὸ τῶν Λαπιθῶν, κἀνταῦθα δὲ ἐδυνάστευσαν ἀφελόμενοι τῶν τε Δωριέων τινὰ μέρη καὶ τῶν Μαλιέων μέχρι Ἡρακλείασ καὶ Ἐχίνου, τινὲσ δ’ αὐτῶν ἔμειναν περὶ Κύφον, Περραιβικὸν ὄροσ ὁμώνυμον κατοικίαν ἔχον. (Strabo, Geography, Book 9, chapter 5 31:4)

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