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καπνοδόκη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καπνοδόκη

Structure: καπνοδοκ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: de/xomai

Sense

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

Declension

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