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καμπύλος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καμπύλος καμπύλη καμπύλον

Structure: καμπυλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: ka/mptw

Sense

  1. bent, crooked, curved

Examples

  • τάσ γε μὴν καμπύλασ τῶν ὑποκριτῶν βακτηρίασ ἀπευθύνειν ἀμήχανον, ἀλλὰ τὸ παρὰ φύσιν τῷ πόνῳ τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν ἐγένετο κρεῖττον. (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, section 4 9:1)
  • ἐν δὲ Λόγῳ καὶ Λογίννᾳ διὰ τοῦ ω εἴρηκεν ἀφύασ τε κωρίδασ τε καμπύλασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 68 2:6)
  • ὁρῶμεν δὴ κατὰ γραμμὰσ ἢ κατ’ εὐθείασ ἢ κατὰ καμπύλασ ἢ κατ’ ἀνακλωμένασ, γραμμὰσ ἀδήλουσ λόγῳ θεωρητὰσ καὶ ἀσωμάτουσ. (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 2:6)
  • καμπύλασ δὲ γραμμὰσ καθ’ ὕδατοσ βλέπομεν γινομένασ· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 3, 4:3)
  • Ὁ δ’ αὐτόσ φησι τὸν Κνίδιον Εὔδοξον ἀκμάσαι κατὰ τὴν τρίτην καὶ ἑκατοστὴν Ὀλυμπιάδα, εὑρεῖν τε τὰ περὶ τὰσ καμπύλασ γραμμάσ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, h, Kef. h'. EUDOCOS 5:4)

Synonyms

  1. bent

Related

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

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