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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

  • καὶ οἱ ἱππεῖσ δὲ πάντεσ παρῆσαν καταβεβηκότεσ ἀπὸ τῶν ἵππων, καὶ διειρκότεσ τὰσ χεῖρασ διὰ τῶν κανδύων, ὥσπερ καὶ νῦν ἔτι διείρουσιν, ὅταν ὁρᾷ βασιλεύσ. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 3 12:1)

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

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