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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

  • 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)
  • Ἄλκηστιν μὲν γὰρ τὴν πρεσβυτάτην ἐκδοῦναι πρὸσ γάμον Ἀδμήτῳ τῷ Φέρητοσ Θετταλῷ, Ἀμφινόμην δὲ Ἀνδραίμονι Λεοντέωσ ἀδελφῷ, Εὐάδνην δὲ Κάνῃ τῷ Κεφάλου, Φωκέων τότε βασιλεύοντι. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, book 4, chapter 53 2:2)

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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