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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

  • 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)
  • "εἵπετο δ’ αὐτοῖσ καὶ Νυκτὸσ εἴδωλον καὶ ̔ Ἡμέρασ, Γῆσ τε καὶ Οὐρανοῦ, καὶ Ηοὖσ καὶ Μεσημβρίασ, τε δὲ τῶν χρυσωμάτων καὶ ἀργυρωμάτων πλῆθοσ οὕτωσ ἄν τισ ὑπονοήσειεν ὅσον ἦν ἑνὸσ γὰρ τῶν φίλων Διονυσίου τοῦ ἐπιστολιαγράφου χίλιοι παῖδεσ ἐπόμπευσαν ἀργυρώματα ἔχοντεσ, ὧν οὐδὲν ἐλάττον’ ὁλκὴν εἶχεν δραχμῶν χιλίων, βασιλικοὶ δὲ παῖδεσ παρῆλθον ἑξακόσιοι χρυσώματα ἔχοντεσ, ἔπειτα γυναῖκεσ ἐκ χρυσῶν καλπίδων μύροισ ἔρραινον εἰσ διακοσίασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 19 3:56)
  • ἔπειτα γυναῖκεσ ἐκ χρυσῶν καλπίδων μύροισ ἔρραινον, εἰσ διακοσίασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 30, iii. res asiae 17:2)

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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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