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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)
  • αἳ τἄλλα θ’ ὑβρίκασι κἀκ τῶν καλπίδων ἔλουσαν ἡμᾶσ, ὥστε θαἰματίδια σείειν πάρεστιν ὥσπερ ἐνεουρηκότασ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Episode7)
  • αἰρώμεθ’ ὦ γυναῖκεσ ἀπὸ τῶν καλπίδων, ὅπωσ ἂν ἐν τῷ μέρει χἠμεῖσ τι ταῖσ φίλαισι συλλάβωμεν. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Agon, antiprelude1)
  • ἐκ χρυσοκολλήτου γε κάλπιδοσ μύρῳ Αἰγυπτίῳ μὲν τοὺσ πόδασ καὶ τὰ σκέλη, φοινικίνῳ δὲ τὰσ γνάθουσ καὶ τιτθία, σισυμβρίνῳ δὲ τὸν ἕτερον βραχίονα, ἀμαρακίνῳ δὲ τὰσ ὀφρῦσ καὶ τὴν κόμην, ἑρπυλλίνῳ δὲ τὸ γόνυ καὶ τὸν αὐχένα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 15, book 15, chapter 404)
  • Κάλπισ ἀργυρᾶ πρόκειται ἱερὰ τοῦ θεοῦ· (Lucian, 84:2)
  • Φιλήμων δ’ ἐν τοῖσ Ἀττικοῖσ Ὀνόμασιν ἢ Γλώτταισ προθεὶσ καλπίσ φησι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 34 2:1)
  • εἰσ δὲ Κόρινθον τοῦ στόλου καταπλέοντοσ ἥ τε κάλπισ ἐκ πρύμνησ περιφανὴσ ἑωρᾶτο πορφύρᾳ βασιλικῇ καὶ διαδήματι κεκοσμημένη, καὶ παρειστήκεισαν ἐν ὅπλοισ νεανίσκοι δορυφοροῦντεσ. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 53 2:2)
  • εἰσ τὴν χήραν τὴν τὸν Ἠλίαν θρέψασαν βλύζει ἐλαιηρὴ κάλπισ καὶ κίστη ἀλεύρου, ἔμπεδον ἡ χήρη οὕνεκα πίστιν ἔχει. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 1, chapter 771)
  • ξυνὴ δ’ ἦν κάλπισ, ξυνὰ δὲ τὰ κτέρεα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 444 1:2)

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

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