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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

  • 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

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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