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κάλυξ

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάλυξ κάλυκος

Structure: καλυκ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: kalu/ptw

Sense

  1. a covering
  2. the shell or pod
  3. the calyx of a flower, a bud, a rose-bud
  4. earrings like flower-cups.

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

  • πόλισ γάρ, ὥσπερ καὐτὸσ εἰσορᾷσ, ἄγαν ἤδη σαλεύει κἀνακουφίσαι κάρα βυθῶν ἔτ’ οὐχ οἱά τε φοινίου σάλου, φθίνουσα μὲν κάλυξιν ἐγκάρποισ χθονόσ, φθίνουσα δ’ ἀγέλαισ βουνόμοισ τόκοισί τε ἀγόνοισ γυναικῶν· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. a covering

  2. the shell or pod

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

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