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καμπτήρ

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καμπτήρ καμπτῆρος

Structure: καμπτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: ka/mptw

Sense

  1. a bend, an angle
  2. the turning-point in the, the goal, last turn or course

Declension

Third 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

  • πάλιν δὲ τῆσ Καρικῆσ παραλίασ τῆσ μετὰ τὴν Ῥόδον ἀπὸ Ἐλαιοῦντοσ καὶ τῶν Λωρύμων καμπτήρ τισ ἐπὶ τὰσ ἄρκτουσ ἐστί, καὶ λοιπὸν ἐπ’ εὐθείασ ὁ πλοῦσ μέχρι τῆσ Προποντίδοσ, ὡσ ἂν μεσημβρινήν τινα ποιῶν γραμμὴν ὅσον πεντακισχιλίων σταδίων ἢ μικρὸν ἀπολείπουσαν. (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 2 28:1)

Synonyms

  1. a bend

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

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