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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κάνης κάνητε κάνητες
Genitive κάνητος κανήτοιν κανήτων
Dative κάνητι κανήτοιν κάνησιν*
Accusative κάνητα κάνητε κάνητας
Vocative κάνη κάνητε κάνητες

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

  • ἐξιέναι μὲν ἱματίων τριῶν μὴ πλέον ἔχουσαν κελεύσασ, μηδὲ βρωτὸν ἢ ποτὸν πλείονοσ ἢ ὀβολοῦ φερομένην, μηδὲ κάνητα πηχυαίου μείζονα, μηδὲ νύκτωρ πορεύεσθαι πλὴν ἁμάξῃ κομιζομένην λύχνου προφαίνοντοσ. (Plutarch, , chapter 21 4:2)
  • 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)
  • εἶτ’ ἐν ἑκατὸν σταδίοισ ἡ Κάνη, τὸ ἀνταῖρον ἀκρωτήριον τῷ Λεκτῷ καὶ ποιοῦν τὸν Ἀδραμυττηνὸν κόλπον, οὗ μέροσ καὶ ὁ Ἐλαϊτικόσ ἐστι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 115:1)
  • ὕστερον δὲ αὐτὸ τὸ ἀκρωτήριον Αἰγὰ κεκλῆσθαι, ὡσ Σαπφώ φησιν, τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν Κάνη καὶ Κάναι. (Strabo, Geography, Book 13, chapter 1 115:8)

Synonyms

  1. a mat of reeds

Related

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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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