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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

  • γίνεσθαι δὲ λέγει κάμπασ ἐν τοῖσ ἐρεβίνθοισ ὁ αὐτὸσ ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ τῆσ αὐτῆσ πραγματείασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 45 2:5)
  • κύκλοσ γάρ οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲ ἀποδίδωσιν, ὡσ πέλτη, τὴν περιφέρειαν, ἀλλ’ ἐκτομὴν ἔχει γραμμῆσ ἑλικοειδοῦσ, ἧσ αἱ κεραῖαι καμπὰσ ἔχουσαι καὶ συνεπιστρέφουσαι τῇ πυκνότητι πρὸσ ἀλλήλασ ἀγκύλον τὸ σχῆμα ποιοῦσιν ἢ διὰ τὸν ἀγκῶνα περὶ ὃν περιφέρονται, ταῦτα γάρ ὁ Ιὄβασ εἴρηκε γλιχόμενοσ ἐξελληνίσαι τοὔνομα. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 13 5:4)
  • Κινησίασ δὲ μ’ ὁ κατάρατοσ Ἀττικόσ, ἐξαρμονίουσ καμπὰσ ποιῶν ἐν ταῖσ στροφαῖσ ἀπολώλεχ’ οὕτωσ, ὥστε τῆσ ποιήσεωσ τῶν διθυράμβων, καθάπερ ἐν ταῖσ ἀσπίσιν, ἀριστέρ’ αὐτοῦ φαίνεται τὰ δεξιά. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 3016)
  • ὅθεν δὴ μανῷ μὲν ὀστῷ, σαρξὶν δὲ καὶ νεύροισ κεφαλήν, ἅτε οὐδὲ καμπὰσ ἔχουσαν, οὐ συνεστέγασαν. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 378:1)
  • ὁδὶ δὲ κραυγῇ μόνον καὶ ἀνοίᾳ διὰ δυστυχῆ φθόγγον καὶ κακὴν ἔγκλισιν καὶ τὰσ ἐκμελεῖσ καμπὰσ καὶ λήρουσ καὶ κυνισμοὺσ καὶ ὀλέθρουσ ἀκλεῶσ ἀπολλύμενοσ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 65:4)

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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