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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

  • ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν κραδάνασ αὐτὸν ὡσ κάλαμον ὑπὸ ἀνέμου, ὥστε κατ’ ἐδάφουσ ἄπρακτον, ἔτι καὶ τοῖσ μέλεσι παραλελυμένον μηδὲ φωνῆσαι δύνασθαι δικαίᾳ περιπεπλεγμένον κρίσει. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 2:22)
  • ὑπὸ παντοδαπὰ δένδρα κοιμᾶται, παρὰ πάπυρον καὶ κάλαμον καὶ βούτομον. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 40:21)
  • κάλαμον τεθλασμένον οὐ συντρίψει καὶ λίνον καπνιζόμενον οὐ σβέσει, ἀλλὰ εἰσ ἀλήθειαν ἐξοίσει κρίσιν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 42:3)
  • καὶ περὶ ἐκείνου τὸ τῆσ παιδιᾶσ λέγουσιν, ὅτι μικροῖσ τοῖσ παιδίοισ οὖσι κάλαμον περιβεβηκὼσ ὥσπερ ἵππον οἴκοι συνέπαιζεν, ὀφθεὶσ δὲ ὑπό τινοσ τῶν φίλων παρεκάλει μηδενὶ φράσαι, πρὶν ἂν καὶ αὐτὸσ πατὴρ παίδων γένηται. (Plutarch, Agesilaus, chapter 25 5:3)
  • τοῖσ δ’ ἀπόροισ ἐπιτάττει κάλαμον ἢ στιβάδα ἢ φύλλα δάφνησ φέρειν, ὅπωσ ἔχωσι τὰ ἐπάικλα κάπτειν μετὰ δεῖπνον γίνεται γὰρ ἄλφιτα ἐλαίῳ ἐρραμένα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 18 1:2)
  • ἰδοὺ δὴ λαβέ, καὶ τὸν κάλαμόν γε ἅμα, ὡσ πάντα ἔχῃσ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 47:6)

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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