Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

καμπή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καμπή

Structure: καμπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: ka/mptw

Sense

  1. a bending, winding
  2. the turning in a race-course, turning-post, its middle or turning point

Declension

First 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

  • ἕτεροι δὲ κείσονταί γ’ ἀπεψωλημένοι περὶ ταῖσι καμπαῖσ ἡνίοχοι πεπτωκότεσ. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, iambics32)
  • ἄνθρωποσ μὲν β’ ποσὶ καὶ β’ χερσίν, ὄρνισ δὲ β’ ποσὶ καὶ β’ πτέρυξιν, ἔγχελυσ καὶ γόγγροσ δύο πτερυγίοισ καὶ δύο καμπαῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 49 1:3)
  • συντίθησι καὶ συνδεῖ πρὸσ ἀλλήλασ ἐγκαταπλέκουσα τὰσ μὲν εὐθείασ τὰσ δὲ πλαγίασ, ὥσπερ ἐπὶ στήμονι κρόκην ἐμβάλλουσα, προσχρωμένη καμπαῖσ καὶ περιαγωγαῖσ δι’ ἀλλήλων, ὥστε διαρμόσαι καὶ γενέσθαι στρογγύλον ἐνήρεμον, πρόμηκεσ ἐκ τοῦ σχήματοσ, ἁλιευτικῷ κύρτῳ παραπλήσιον. (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 35 11:1)
  • ἦν δὲ ὁ λαβύρινθοσ, ὃν Δαίδαλοσ κατεσκεύασεν, οἴκημα καμπαῖσ πολυπλόκοισ πλανῶν τὴν ἔξοδον. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 1 4:8)
  • πολυπλόκοισ γὰρ καμπαῖσ τὴν ἀγνοουμένην ἔξοδον ἀπέκλειε. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 15 8:15)

Synonyms

  1. a bending

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

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