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κάθετος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάθετος κάθετον

Structure: καθετ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: kaqi/hmi

Sense

  1. let down, a fishing-line

Declension

First/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

  • Ὅταν δὲ εὐθεῖα ἐπ’ εὐθεῖαν σταθεῖσα τὰσ ἐφεξῆσ γωνίασ ἴσασ ἀλλήλαισ ποιῇ, ὀρθὴ ἑκατέρα τῶν ἴσων γωνιῶν ἐστι, καὶ ἡ ἐφεστηκυῖα εὐθεῖα κάθετοσ καλεῖται, ἐφ’ ἣν ἐφέστηκεν. (Euclid, Elements, book 1, type Def10)
  • λέγω, ὅτι ἐπὶ τὴν δοθεῖσαν εὐθεῖαν ἄπειρον τὴν ΑΒ ἀπὸ τοῦ δοθέντοσ σημείου τοῦ Γ, ὃ μή ἐστιν ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ, κάθετοσ ἦκται ἡ ΓΘ. (Euclid, Elements, book 1, type Prop144)
  • ὅταν δὲ εὐθεῖα ἐπ’ εὐθεῖαν σταθεῖσα τὰσ ἐφεξῆσ γωνίασ ἴσασ ἀλλήλαισ ποιῇ, ὀρθὴ ἑκατέρα τῶν ἴσων γωνιῶν ἐστιν, καὶ ἡ ἐφεστηκυῖα εὐθεῖα κάθετοσ καλεῖται ἐφ’ ἣν ἐφέστηκεν. (Euclid, Elements, book 1, type Prop149)
  • Ἐπὶ τὴν δοθεῖσαν ἄρα εὐθεῖαν ἄπειρον τὴν ΑΒ ἀπὸ τοῦ δοθέντοσ σημείου τοῦ Γ, ὃ μή ἐστιν ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ, κάθετοσ ἦκται ἡ ΓΘ· (Euclid, Elements, book 1, type Prop150)
  • Ἐν τοῖσ ἀμβλυγωνίοισ τριγώνοισ τὸ ἀπὸ τῆσ τὴν ἀμβλεῖαν γωνίαν ὑποτεινούσησ πλευρᾶσ τετράγωνον μεῖζόν ἐστι τῶν ἀπὸ τῶν τὴν ἀμβλεῖαν γωνίαν περιεχουσῶν πλευρῶν τετραγώνων τῷ περιεχομένῳ δὶσ ὑπό τε μιᾶσ τῶν περὶ τὴν ἀμβλεῖαν γωνίαν, ἐφ’ ἣν ἡ κάθετοσ πίπτει, καὶ τῆσ ἀπολαμβανομένησ ἐκτὸσ ὑπὸ τῆσ καθέτου πρὸσ τῇ ἀμβλείᾳ γωνίᾳ. (Euclid, Elements, book 2, type Prop280)

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

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