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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

  • 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)

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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