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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

  • Κάλπισ ἀργυρᾶ πρόκειται ἱερὰ τοῦ θεοῦ· (Lucian, 84:2)
  • 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)
  • Φιλήμων δ’ ἐν τοῖσ Ἀττικοῖσ Ὀνόμασιν ἢ Γλώτταισ προθεὶσ καλπίσ φησι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 34 2:1)

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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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