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κάλαμος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάλαμος καλάμου

Structure: καλαμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a reed
  2. anything made of reed or cane, staff, rod
  3. measuring rod
  4. pen
  5. flute
  6. shaft of an arrow

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

  • ἀταλᾶσ ὑπὸ ματρὸσ <ἄρν’> Ἀργείων ὀρέων ποτὲ κληδὼν ἐν πολιαῖσι μένει φήμαισ εὐαρμόστοισ ἐν καλάμοισ Πᾶνα μοῦσαν ἡδύθροον πνέοντ’, ἀγρῶν ταμίαν, χρυσέαν καλλιπλόκαμον πορεῦσαι. (Euripides, choral, strophe 11)
  • ἔμολεσ, ὦ Πάρισ, ᾗτε σύ γε βουκόλοσ ἀργενναῖσ ἐτράφησ Ἰδαίαισ παρὰ μόσχοισ, βάρβαρα συρίζων, Φρυγίων αὐλῶν Ὀλύμπου καλάμοισ μιμήματα πνείων. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, choral, epode1)
  • "ἐν ταύτῃ συμβαίνει τοὺσ μὲν ἀπὸ τῆσ χώρασ καλάμοισ στεφανοῦσθαι ἢ στλεγγίδι, τοὺσ δ’ ἐκ τῆσ ἀγωγῆσ παῖδασ ἀστεφανώτουσ ἀκολουθεῖν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 15 4:1)
  • "ἢ Φρύγα καλλιπνόων αὐλῶν ἱερῶν βασιλῆα, Λυδὸν ὃσ ἡρ́μοσε πρῶτοσ Δωρίδοσ ἀντίπαλον μούσησ νόμον αἰολον, ὀμφᾷ πνεύματοσ εὔπτερον αὔραν ἀμφιπλέκων καλάμοισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 7 1:11)
  • "τὴν ἐν Σάμῳ Ἀφροδίτην, ἣν οἱ μὲν ἐν καλάμοισ καλοῦσιν, οἱ δὲ ἐν ἕλει, Ἀττικαί, φησίν, ἑταῖραι ἱδρύσαντο αἱ συνακολουθήσασαι Περικλεῖ ὅτε ἐπολιόρκει τὴν Σάμον, ἐργασάμεναι ἱκανῶσ ἀπὸ τῆσ ὡρ́ασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 31 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a reed

  2. anything made of reed or cane

  3. measuring rod

  4. flute

  5. shaft of an arrow

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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