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κάνης

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάνης κάνητος

Structure: κανητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ka/nna

Sense

  1. a mat of reeds

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

  • ἐποιέετο δὲ τὴν ὁδὸν ἐκ τῆσ Λυδίησ ὁ στρατὸσ ἐπί τε ποταμὸν Κάικον καὶ γῆν τὴν Μυσίην, ἀπὸ δὲ Καί̈κου ὁρμώμενοσ, Κάνησ ὄροσ ἔχων ἐν ἀριστερῇ, διὰ τοῦ Ἀταρνέοσ ἐσ Καρήνην πόλιν· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 42 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a mat of reeds

Related

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

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