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καπνοδόκη?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: kapnodokē

Principal Part: καπνοδόκη

Structure: καπνοδοκ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: δέχομαι

Sense

  1. a smoke-receiver, a hole in the roof for the smoke to pass through

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative καπνοδόκη καπνοδόκα καπνοδόκαι
Genitive καπνοδόκης καπνοδόκαιν καπνοδοκῶν
Dative καπνοδόκῃ καπνοδόκαιν καπνοδόκαις
Accusative καπνοδόκην καπνοδόκα καπνοδόκας
Vocative καπνοδόκη καπνοδόκα καπνοδόκαι

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

  • "βέλτιστε Ἐμπεδόκλεις, κἀπειδὰν τάχιστα κατάπτωμαι πάλιν ἐς τὴν Ἑλλάδα, μεμνήσομαι σπένδειν τέ σοι ἐπὶ τῆς καπνοδόκης κἀν ταῖς νουμηνίαις πρὸς τὴν σελήνην τρὶς ἐγχανὼν προσεύχεσθαι. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 13:10)
  • ἀποταμὼν ἕκαστος κεφαλὴν ἀποφέρεται ἐς τὰ οἰκία, ἔπειτα ἐπὶ ξύλου μεγάλου ἀναπείρας ἱστᾷ ὑπὲρ τῆς οἰκίης ὑπερέχουσαν πολλόν, μάλιστα δὲ ὑπὲρ τῆς καπνοδόκης. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 103 3:2)
  • ἐνθαῦτα ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῦ μισθοῦ πέρι ἀκούσας, ἦν γὰρ κατὰ τὴν καπνοδόκην ἐς τὸν οἶκον ἐσέχων ὁ ἥλιος, εἶπε θεοβλαβὴς γενόμενος "μισθὸν δὲ ὑμῖν ἐγὼ ὑμέων ἄξιον τόνδε ἀποδίδωμι," δέξας τὸν ἥλιον. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 137 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. a smoke-receiver

Similar forms

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

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