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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

  • ἐγὼ δὲ λεπτῶν ὄμμα διὰ καλυμμάτων ἔχουσ’, ἀδελφόν τ’ οὐκ ἀνειλόμην χεροῖν, ‐ ὃσ νῦν ὄλωλεν ‐ οὐ κασιγνήτῃ στόμα συνῆψ’ ὑπ’ αἰδοῦσ, ὡσ ἰοῦσ’ ἐσ Πηλέωσ μέλαθρα· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 7:10)
  • δείξω γὰρ τάδ’ ἐκ καλυμμάτων. (Sophocles, Trachiniae, episode 1:2)
  • καὶ μὴν ὁ χρησμὸσ οὐκέτ’ ἐκ καλυμμάτων ἔσται δεδορκὼσ νεογάμου νύμφησ δίκην· (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, episode1)

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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