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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

  • καὶ εἶπον αὐτῷ λέγοντεσ. οὐχί, ὅτι ἀλλ̓ ἢ δεσμῷ δήσομέν σε καὶ παραδώσομέν σε ἐν χειρὶ αὐτῶν καὶ θανάτῳ οὐ θανατώσομέν σε. καὶ ἔδησαν αὐτὸν ἐν δυσὶ καλωδίοισ καινοῖσ καὶ ἀνήνεγκαν αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τῆσ πέτρασ ἐκείνησ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 15:13)
  • καὶ ἦλθον ἕωσ Σιαγόνοσ. καὶ οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι ἠλάλαξαν καὶ ἔδραμον εἰσ συνάντησιν αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἥλατο ἐπ̓ αὐτὸν πνεῦμα Κυρίου, καὶ ἐγενήθη τὰ καλώδια τὰ ἐπὶ βραχίοσιν αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ στυππίον, ὃ ἐξεκαύθη ἐν πυρί, καὶ ἐτάκησαν δεσμοὶ αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ χειρῶν αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 15:14)
  • καὶ εἶπε πρὸσ αὐτήν. ἐὰν δεσμεύοντεσ δήσωσί με ἐν καλωδίοισ καινοῖσ, οἷσ οὐκ ἐγένετο ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἔργον, καὶ ἀσθενήσω καὶ ἔσομαι ὡσ εἷσ τῶν ἀνθρώπων. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 16:11)
  • καὶ ἔλαβε Δαλιδὰ καλώδια καινὰ καὶ ἔδησεν αὐτὸν ἐν αὐτοῖσ. καὶ τὰ ἔνεδρα ἐξῆλθεν ἐκ τοῦ ταμιείου. καὶ εἶπεν. ἀλλόφυλοι ἐπὶ σέ, Σαμψών. καὶ διέσπασεν αὐτὰ ἀπὸ βραχιόνων αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ σπαρτίον. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 16:12)
  • σὺ δὲ πάνυ χαλεπὴ ἀεὶ τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ γεγένησαι, καὶ ὁρ́α μὴ κατὰ τὴν παροιμίαν ἀπορρήξωμεν πάνυ τείνουσαι τὸ καλώδιον. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 3:15)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐξάψασ διὰ τῆσ θυρίδοσ τὸ καλῴδιον εἶτα καθίμα δήσασ σαυτὸν καὶ τὴν ψυχὴν ἐμπλησάμενοσ Διοπείθουσ. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Agon, 1)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)

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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