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κάλαμος?

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration: kalamos

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

  • καί τις ὀρεσσαύλοιο δορὴ μετόπισθε χιμαίρης ἐκκρεμὲς ᾐώρητο καὶ αὐτῶν ἥπτετο μηρῶν, ποιμενίη δ ἀπέκειτο, βοῶν ἐλάτειρα, καλαῦροψ, τοῖος ἐπεὶ σύριγγος, ἐς ἤθεα βαιὸν ὁδεύων, ἀγροτέρων καλάμων λιγυρὴν ἐδίωκεν ἀοιδήν: (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 155)
  • ἑλάνη δὲ ἡ λαμπὰς καλεῖται, ὡς Ἀμερίας φησίν, Νίκανδρος δ ὁ Κολοφώνιος ἑλάνην τὴν τῶν καλάμων δέσμην. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, compendium in ce 1:4)
  • συντελέσαι ποιήσαντα οὕτως, κατὰ τόπους τῆς χώρας τὰς ἐπικαιροτάτας τῶν ὁδῶν διέλαβε σταθμοῖς ἐπί τε τούτοις ἐκ χαράκων καὶ τῶν καλάμων τῶν τε οἰσυίνων ἐπεβάλλετο σκηνὰς χωρούσας ἀνὰ τετρακοσίους ἄνδρας καὶ πλείους ἔτι, καθὼς ἂν ἐκποιῶσιν οἱ τόποι τό τ ἀπὸ τῶν πόλεων δέξασθαι καὶ τῶν κωμῶν μέλλον ἐπιρρεῖν πλῆθος, ἐνταῦθα δὲ λέβητας ἐπέστησε κρεῶν παντοδαπῶν μεγάλους, οὓς πρὸ ἐνιαυτοῦ καὶ πρὸ τοῦ μέλλειν μεταπεμψάμενος τεχνίτας ἐξ ἄλλων πόλεων ἐχαλκεύσατο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 4, book 4, chapter 34 1:1)
  • τοῦ δὲ Μαρίου δεηθέντος τοῦτο ποιεῖν, ἀγαγὼν αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ ἕλος καὶ πτῆξαι κελεύσας ἐν χωρίῳ κοίλῳ παρὰ τὸν ποταμὸν ἐπέβαλε τῶν τε καλάμων πολλοὺς καὶ τῆς ἄλλης ἐπιφέρων ὕλης ὅση κούφη καὶ περιπέσσειν ἀβλαβῶς δυναμένη. (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 37 6:1)
  • ἐπὶ μὲν γὰρ τῶν καλάμων καὶ τῶν αὐλίσκων τῶν εἰς τὸ ὕδωρ καθιεμένων ἀληθὲς εἰπεῖν, ὅτι κενουμένου τοῦ περιεχομένου κατὰ τὴν εὐρυχωρίαν αὐτῶν ἀέρος ἢ κενὸς ἀθρόως ἔσται τόπος ἢ ἀκολουθήσει τὸ συνεχές: (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 17)

Synonyms

  1. a reed

  2. anything made of reed or cane

  3. measuring rod

  4. flute

  5. shaft of an arrow

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