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κάλπις

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάλπις κάλπιδος

Structure: καλπιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a vessel for drawing water, a pitcher or ewer, an urn for drawing lots or collecting votes, a cinerary urn

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

  • θώμεσθα δὴ τὰσ κάλπιδασ χἠμεῖσ χαμᾶζ’, ὅπωσ ἂν ἢν προσφέρῃ τὴν χεῖρά τισ μὴ τοῦτό μ’ ἐμποδίζῃ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Parodos, tetrameters12)
  • ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἔνδον ἦσαν, ἐκφέρων ὁ Γωβρύασ φιάλασ χρυσᾶσ καὶ πρόχουσ καὶ κάλπιδασ καὶ κόσμον παντοῖον καὶ δαρεικοὺσ ἀμέτρουσ τινὰσ καὶ πάντα καλὰ πολλά, τέλοσ τὴν θυγατέρα, δεινόν τι κάλλοσ καὶ μέγεθοσ, πενθικῶσ δ’ ἔχουσαν τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ τεθνηκότοσ, ἐξάγων ὧδ’ εἶπεν· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 8:1)
  • ἐπὶ δὲ τούτοισ δύο κάλπιδασ ἀργυρᾶσ εἰσήνεγκαν, ὡσ τῆσ μὲν μιᾶσ ἐχούσησ τὰ τοῦ βασιλέωσ ὀστᾶ, τῆσ δ’ ἑτέρασ τὰ τῆσ Ἀρσινόησ· (Polybius, Histories, book 15, chapter 25 6:2)

Related

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

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