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γυρῖνος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: γυρῖνος γυρίνου

Structure: γυριν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: guro/s

Sense

  1. tadpole

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

  • καὶ Φύλαρχοσ δ’ ἐν τετάρτῃ ἑωρακέναι τινὰσ πολλαχοῦ τὸν θεὸν ὕσαντα ἰχθύσι, πολλάκισ δὲ καὶ γυρίνοισ τοῦ αὐτοῦ συμβαίνοντοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 6 2:2)
  • ἓν γὰρ καὶ τοῦτο ποιεῖται σημεῖον ὑετοῦ μέλλοντοσ Ἄρατοσ εἰπών ἦ μάλα δείλαιαι γενεαί, ὕδροισιν ὄνειαρ, αὐτόθεν ἐκ λίμνησ πατέρεσ βοόωσι γυρίνων. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Naturales, chapter 2 13:1)
  • τὴν δ’ ἀρχὴν τοῦ λόγου τεθαύμακα, ὅτι οὐκ εἶπεν ἀρχόμενοσ τῆσ Ἀληθείασ ὅτι "πάντων χρημάτων μέτρον ἐστὶν ὗσ" ἢ "κυνοκέφαλοσ" ἤ τι ἄλλο ἀτοπώτερον τῶν ἐχόντων αἴσθησιν, ἵνα μεγαλοπρεπῶσ καὶ πάνυ καταφρονητικῶσ ἤρξατο ἡμῖν λέγειν, ἐνδεικνύμενοσ ὅτι ἡμεῖσ μὲν αὐτὸν ὥσπερ θεὸν ἐθαυμάζομεν ἐπὶ σοφίᾳ, ὁ δ’ ἄρα ἐτύγχανεν ὢν εἰσ φρόνησιν οὐδὲν βελτίων βατράχου γυρίνου, μὴ ὅτι ἄλλου του ἀνθρώπων. (Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman, 119:3)

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