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κάνεον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάνεον κάνεου

Structure: κανε (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ka/nna

Sense

  1. a basket of reed or cane, a bread-basket

Declension

Second 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

  • πὰρ δ’ ἐτίθει κάνεον καλήν τε τράπεζαν, πὰρ δὲ δέπασ οἴνοιο, πιεῖν ὅτε θυμὸσ ἀνώγοι. (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 7:5)
  • ἥ σφωϊν πρῶτον μὲν ἐπιπροί̈ηλε τράπεζαν καλὴν κυανόπεζαν ἐύ̈ξοον, αὐτὰρ ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ χάλκειον κάνεον, ἐπὶ δὲ κρόμυον ποτῷ ὄψον, ἠδὲ μέλι χλωρόν, παρὰ δ’ ἀλφίτου ἱεροῦ ἀκτήν, πὰρ δὲ δέπασ περικαλλέσ, ὃ οἴκοθεν ἦγ’ ὁ γεραιόσ, χρυσείοισ ἥλοισι πεπαρμένον· (Homer, Iliad, Book 11 61:5)

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

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