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κάνθων

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάνθων κάνθωνος

Structure: κανθων (Stem)

Etym.: = kanqh/lios,

Sense

  1. a pack-ass

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

  • ἆρα οὖν καὶ ἡμεῖσ ἂν εἴποιμεν, ὅτι τὸν κάνθωνα τουτέστιν ἑαυτὸν Ἀπίων ἐπιφορτίζει καὶ ποιεῖ τῆσ μωρολογίασ ἅμα καὶ τῶν ψευσμάτων κατάγομον; (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 58:2)

Synonyms

  1. a pack-ass

Related

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

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