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κάνης?

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration: kanēs

Principal Part: κάνης κάνητος

Structure: κανητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: κάννα

Sense

  1. a mat of reeds

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κάνης κάνητε κάνητες
Genitive κάνητος κανήτοιν κανήτων
Dative κάνητι κανήτοιν κάνησι(ν)
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 Καΐκου 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

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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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