Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

  • ἤδη καλλιπέτηλον ἐπ’ εὐκάρποισι λοχείαισ λήιον ἐκ ῥοδέων ἀνθοφορεῖ καλύκων ἤδη ἐπ’ ἀκρεμόνεσσιν ἰσοζυγέων κυπαρίσσων μουσομανὴσ τέττιξ θέλγει ἀμαλλοδέτην· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 10, chapter 161)
  • ᾗχι καὶ ἑρσήεισ ἀμαρύσσεται ἄνθεσι λειμὼν, πουλὺν ἰοστεφάνων κόσμον ἀνεὶσ καλύκων καὶ γλυκερῆσ τρίστοιχοσ ἐπεμβαδὸν ἄλλοσ ἐπ’ ἄλλῳ μαστὸσ ἀναθλίβει χεύματα Ναϊάδοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 6682)
  • οὔπω σοι καλύκων γυμνὸν θέροσ, οὐδὲ μελαίνει βότρυσ ὁ παρθενίουσ πρωτοβολῶν χάριτασ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 1241)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἰδὼν σέο κάλλοσ, ἀπείργετο χείλεα μῖξαι χείλεϊ σῷ, ῥοδέων ἁβροτέρῳ καλύκων, Τάνταλοσ ἀκριτόδακρυσ, ὑπερτέλλοντα δὲ πέτρον δείδιεν ἀλλὰ θανεῖν δεύτερον οὐ δύναται. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2362)

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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