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κανών

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κανών κανόνος

Structure: κανων (Stem)

Etym.: ka/nna

Sense

  1. rod, pole, bar
  2. rods used in shields
  3. type of rod used in weaving
  4. measuring rod, carpenter's rule, plumb line, level
  5. (music) monochord
  6. something to judge by, rule, norm, general principle
  7. model, paradigm
  8. tax assessment, tax, tariff

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

  • ἐπεὶ τίσ πρὸσ ὅλον τὸν τῆσ φιλοσοφίασ κανόνα εὐσεβῶσ φιλοσοφῶν (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 7:21)
  • οὐδέπω δὲ τοῦτό μοι ἱκανόν, ἢν μὴ εἰδῇσ τὴν ἀρετὴν καὶ κακίαν ἑκάστου τῶν ἐγγεγραμμένων καὶ συνίῃσ ὅστισ μὲν ὁ νοῦσ σύμπασιν, τίσ δὲ ἡ τάξισ τῶν ὀνομάτων, ὅσα τε πρὸσ τὸν ὀρθὸν κανόνα τῷ συγγραφεῖ ἀπηκρίβωται καὶ ὅσα κίβδηλα καὶ νόθα καὶ παρακεκομμένα. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 2:3)
  • περὶ δὲ Δημώνακτοσ ἤδη δίκαιον λέγειν ἀμφοῖν ἕνεκα, ὡσ ἐκεῖνοσ τε διὰ μνήμησ εἰή τοῖσ ἀρίστοισ τό γε κατ’ ἐμὲ καὶ οἱ γενναιότατοι τῶν νέων καὶ πρὸσ φιλοσοφίαν ὁρμῶντεσ ἔχοιεν μὴ πρὸσ τὰ ἀρχαῖα μόνα τῶν παραδειγμάτων σφᾶσ αὐτοὺσ ῥυθμίζειν, ἀλλὰ κἀκ τοῦ ἡμετέρου βίου κανόνα προτίθεσαι καὶ ζηλοῦν ἐκεῖνον ἄριστον ὧν οἶδα ἐγὼ φιλοσόφων γενόμενον. (Lucian, (no name) 2:1)
  • τούτων δή, φημί, τῶν ἀνδρῶν καὶ τῶν παραπλησίων τούτοισ διαφέρειν οἰόμενοσ Λυσίαν καὶ ὥσπερ ἀρχέτυπον ἀπογράφων ὑπερέχειν, ἐκεῖνον τὸν ἄνδρα ταύτησ τῆσ προαιρέσεωσ τῶν λόγων ἐποιησάμην κανόνα. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 20 1:1)
  • τὸ δὲ σῶμα κατὰ τὸν Πολυκλείτου κανόνα ἤδη ἐπιδείξειν μοι δοκῶ· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 74:3)

Synonyms

  1. model

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