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κάπρος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάπρος κάπρου

Structure: καπρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a boar, a wild boar
  2. a sow

Declension

Second 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

  • πρῶτον οὖν ὁρ́α προθέσεισ καὶ παρασκευὰσ ταύρων ἐπὶ μάχῃ κονιομένων καὶ κάπρων θηγόντων ὀδόντασ· (Plutarch, De sollertia animalium, chapter, section 10 3:1)
  • νύμφαι Νηιάδεσ, καλλίρροον αἳ τόδε νᾶμα χεῖτε κατ’ οὐρείου πρωνὸσ ἀπειρέσιον, ὔμμιν ταῦτα πόρεν Δαμόστρατοσ Ἀντίλα υἱὸσ ξέσματα, καὶ δοιῶν ῥινὰ κάπρων λάσια. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 3281)
  • πᾶσι γὰρ πάντων ἀπελείποντο ἄλλοτε ἄλλων, τάχει μὲν τῶν πτηνῶν ἁπάντων ‐ ὅπερ οὖν Ὅμηροσ ἔφη τοὺσ Πυγμαίουσ πάσχειν ὑπὸ τῶν γεράνων, πᾶσι τοῖσ τότε ὑπὸ πάντων συνέβαινε τῶν ἀλκίμων ὀρνίθων ‐ κατ’ ἰσχὺν δ’ αὖ πόρρω καὶ τῶν λεόντων καὶ τῶν κάπρων καὶ πολλῶν ἄλλων ἦσαν· (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 99:3)

Synonyms

  1. a boar

  2. a sow

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