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καλώδιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλώδιον καλώδιου

Structure: καλωδι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ka/lws의 지소사,

Sense

  1. a small cord

Declension

Second 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

  • σὺ δὲ πάνυ χαλεπὴ ἀεὶ τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ γεγένησαι, καὶ ὁρ́α μὴ κατὰ τὴν παροιμίαν ἀπορρήξωμεν πάνυ τείνουσαι τὸ καλώδιον. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:15)
  • Καὶ κηρὸν ὡσ ἐπιπλάσαι τοῦ σκαφιδίου τὰ ἀνεῳγότα καὶ ἥλουσ δὲ καὶ καλώδιον, ἀφ̓ οὗ τὴν ὑπέραν ἐποίησασ, δύο δραχμῶν ἅπαντα. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 3:2)
  • ἐμπλακέντα δ’ αὐτοῦ τὸν πόδα καλῳδίῳ, κόπτων τισ τὸ καλώδιον ξιφιδίῳ, τὸν ταρσὸν ἔτεμεν ἀντὶ τοῦ καλωδίου τοῦ ποδόσ· (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 15 5:5)
  • ἀγκιστρώδησ τε γάρ ἐστι καὶ χαλαρῶσ ἐνήρμοσται τῷ δόρατι ἐπίτηδεσ, καλώδιον δ’ ἔχει μακρὸν ἐξημμένον· (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 2 32:6)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐξάψασ διὰ τῆσ θυρίδοσ τὸ καλῴδιον εἶτα καθίμα δήσασ σαυτὸν καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν ἐμπλησάμενοσ Διοπείθουσ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Agon, 1)
  • τέλοσ δὲ τοὺσ Ῥωμαίουσ οὕτω περιφόβουσ γεγονότασ ὁρῶν ὁ Μάρκελλοσ ὥστ’, εἰ καλῴδιον ἢ ξύλον ὑπὲρ τοῦ τείχουσ μικρὸν ὀφθείη προτεινόμενον, τοῦτο ἐκεῖνο, μηχανήν τινα κινεῖν ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ Ἀρχιμήδη βοῶντασ ἀποτρέπεσθαι καὶ φεύγειν, ἀπέσχετο μάχησ ἁπάσησ καὶ προσβολῆσ, τὸ λοιπὸν ἐπὶ τῷ χρόνῳ τὴν πολιορκίαν θέμενοσ. (Plutarch, Marcellus, chapter 17 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. a small cord

Related

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

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