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κάλυμμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάλυμμα κάλυμματος

Structure: καλυμματ (Stem)

Etym.: kalu/ptw

Sense

  1. a head-covering, a hood or veil, a covering
  2. a grave

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

  • εὖ λέγεισ, ξουθῆσ μελίσσησ νάμασιν δὲ συμμιγῆ μηκάδων αἰγῶν ἀπόρρουν θρόμβον, ἐγκαθειμένον εἰσ πλατὺ στέγαστρον ἁγνῆσ παρθένου Δηοῦσ κόρησ, λεπτοσυνθέτοισ τρυφῶντα μυρίοισ καλύμμασιν, ἢ σαφῶσ πλακοῦντα φράζω σοι; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 70 3:4)
  • αἰσχρῶσ τε βουλευτοῖσιν ἐν καλύμμασιν. (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode12)

Synonyms

  1. a head-covering

  2. a grave

Related

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

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