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κάνδυς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάνδυς κάνδυος

Structure: κανδυ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a Median cloak with sleeves

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

  • ταῦτα γὰρ πάντα Μηδικά ἐστι, καὶ οἱ πορφυροῖ χιτῶνεσ καὶ οἱ κάνδυεσ καὶ οἱ στρεπτοὶ οἱ περὶ τῇ δέρῃ καὶ τὰ ψέλια τὰ περὶ ταῖσ χερσίν, ἐν Πέρσαισ δὲ τοῖσ οἴκοι καὶ νῦν ἔτι πολὺ καὶ ἐσθῆτεσ φαυλότεραι καὶ δίαιται εὐτελέστεραι· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 3:2)

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

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