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καλαμίς

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλαμίς καλαμῖδος

Structure: καλαμιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ka/lamos

Sense

  1. a reed fishing-rod

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative καλαμίς καλαμίδε καλαμίδες
Genitive καλαμίδος καλαμίδοιν καλαμίδων
Dative καλαμίδι καλαμίδοιν καλαμίσιν*
Accusative καλαμίδα καλαμίδε καλαμίδας
Vocative καλαμί καλαμίδε καλαμίδες

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

  • ἔτι καὶ στόματοσ ἁρμογὴν αὐτὸσ καὶ τὸν αὐχένα, παρὰ τῆσ Ἀμαζόνοσ λαβών ἡ Σωσάνδρα δὲ καὶ Κάλαμισ αἰδοῖ κοσμήσουσιν αὐτήν, καὶ τὸ μειδίαμα σεμνὸν καὶ λεληθὸσ ὥσπερ τὸ ἐκείνησ ἔσται· (Lucian, Imagines, (no name) 6:4)
  • πρὸ δὲ τοῦ νεὼ τὸν μὲν Λεωχάρησ, ὃν δὲ καλοῦσιν Ἀλεξίκακον Κάλαμισ ἐποίησε. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 3 8:5)
  • Κάλαμισ δὲ οὐκ ἔχουσαν πτερὰ ποιῆσαι λέγεται ἀπομιμούμενοσ τὸ Ἀθήνῃσι τῆσ Ἀπτέρου καλουμένησ ξόανον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 26 11:5)
  • ἐσ δὲ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ τὰ ἱερὰ τοῦ τε Κριοφόρου καὶ ὃν Πρόμαχον καλοῦσι, τοῦ μὲν ἐσ τὴν ἐπίκλησιν λέγουσιν ὡσ ὁ Ἑρμῆσ σφισιν ἀποτρέψαι νόσον λοιμώδη περὶ τὸ τεῖχοσ κριὸν περιενεγκών, καὶ ἐπὶ τούτῳ Κάλαμισ ἐποίησεν ἄγαλμα Ἑρμοῦ φέροντα κριὸν ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 22 2:2)

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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