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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

  • Τόφρα δ’ Ὕλασ χαλκέῃ σὺν κάλπιδι νόσφιν ὁμίλου δίζητο κρήνησ ἱερὸν ῥόον, ὥσ κέ οἱ ὕδωρ φθαίη ἀφυσσάμενοσ ποτιδόρπιον, ἄλλα τε πάντα ὀτραλέωσ κατὰ κόσμον ἐπαρτίσσειεν ἰόντι. (Apollodorus, Argonautica, book 1 21:1)
  • ῥείτω χἁ Συβαρῖτισ ἐμὶν μέλι, καὶ τὸ πότορθρον ἁ παῖσ ἀνθ’ ὕδατοσ τᾷ κάλπιδι κηρία βάψαι. (Theocritus, Idylls, 110)
  • λείψανα δ’, αἰαῖ, ἔδρακεσ ἐν βαιῇ κάλπιδι κευθόμενα. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 3733)

Related

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

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