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καλαῦροψ

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλαῦροψ καλαῦροπος

Structure: καλαυροπ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a shepherd's staff

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐν δὲ τῇ Ῥώμῃ καλιάσ τισ Ἄρεοσ ἱερὰ περὶ τὴν κορυφὴν ἱδρυμένη τοῦ Παλατίου συγκαταφλεγεῖσα ταῖσ πέριξ οἰκίαισ ἑώσ ἐδάφουσ, ἀνακαθαιρομένων τῶν οἰκοπέδων ἕνεκα τῆσ ἐπισκευῆσ, ἐν μέσῃ τῇ περικαύστῳ σποδῷ τὸ σύμβολον τοῦ συνοικισμοῦ τῆσ πόλεωσ διέσωσεν ἀπαθέσ, ῥόπαλον ἐκ θατέρου τῶν ἄκρων ἐπικάμπιον, οἱᾶ φέρουσι βουκόλοι καὶ νομεῖσ οἱ μὲν καλαύροπασ, οἱ δὲ λαγωβόλα καλοῦντεσ, ᾧ Ῥωμύλοσ ὀρνιθευόμενοσ διέγραφε τῶν οἰωνῶν τὰσ χώρασ, ὅτε τὴν πόλιν οἰκίζειν ἔμελλεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 14, chapter 2 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a shepherd's staff

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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