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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

  • "ἐξαρμονίουσ ὑπερβολαίουσ, τ’ ἀνοσίουσ καὶ νιγλάρουσ, ὥσπερ τε τὰσ ῥαφάνουσ ὅλην καμπῶν με κατεμέστωσε. (Pseudo-Plutarch, De musica, section 3029)
  • οἱ δ’ εἰκάζοντεσ ἐξ αὐτῶν τἀληθὲσ ταύρῳ μὲν ἐοικότα λέγεσθαι τὸν Ἀχελῶόν φασι, καθάπερ καὶ τοὺσ ἄλλουσ ποταμούσ, ἀπό τε τῶν ἤχων καὶ τῶν κατὰ τὰ ῥεῖθρα καμπῶν, ἃσ καλοῦσι κέρατα, δράκοντι δὲ διὰ τὸ μῆκοσ καὶ τὴν σκολιότητα, βούπρῳρον δὲ διὰ τὴν αὐτὴν αἰτίαν δι’ ἣν καὶ ταυρωπόν· (Strabo, Geography, Book 10, chapter 2 26:8)

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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