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κάρα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάρα κάρατος

Structure: καρατ (Stem)

Etym.: poet. for kefalh/

Sense

  1. head, face
  2. the head or top of anything, as of a mountain
  3. person

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

  • οἱ λοιποὶ δὲ τὸ ψυχροβαφὲσ κάρα δελφινίσαντεσ παρένεον ὑποβρύχιοι θαυμασίωσ. (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 5:3)
  • λύκειον ἀμφὶ νῶτ’ ἐνάψομαι δορὰν καὶ χάσμα θηρὸσ ἀμφ’ ἐμῷ θήσω κάρᾳ, βάσιν τε χερσὶ προσθίαν καθαρμόσασ καὶ κῶλα κώλοισ, τετράπουν μιμήσομαι λύκου κέλευθον πολεμίοισ δυσεύρετον, τάφροισ πελάζων καὶ νεῶν προβλήμασιν. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 1:7)
  • σωθήσομαί γε καὶ κτανὼν Ὀδυσσέωσ οἴσω κάρα σοι ‐ σύμβολον δ’ ἔχων σαφὲσ φήσεισ Δόλωνα ναῦσ ἐπ’ Ἀργείων μολεῖν ‐ ἢ παῖδα Τυδέωσ· (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 1:13)
  • βίον δ’ ἐπαιτῶν εἱρ͂π’ ἀγύρτησ τισ λάτρισ, ψαφαρόχρουν κάρα πολυπινέσ τ’ ἔχων· (Euripides, Rhesus, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • εἰ γοῦν ἐθεάσω τὸν Μαύσωλον αὐτόν, ‐ λέγω δὲ τὸν Κᾶρα, τὸν ἐκ τοῦ τάφου περιβόητον ‐ εὖ οἶδα ὅτι οὐκ ἂν ἐπαύσω γελῶν, οὕτω ταπεινὸσ ἔρριπτο ἐν παραβύστῳ που λανθάνων ἐν τῷ λοιπῷ δήμῳ τῶν νεκρῶν, ἐμοὶ δοκεῖν, τοσοῦτον ἀπολαύων τοῦ μνήματοσ, παρ’ ὅσον ἐβαρύνετο τηλικοῦτον ἄχθοσ ἐπικείμενοσ· (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 17:3)

Synonyms

  1. head

  2. the head or top of anything

  3. person

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