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κάρφος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάρφος κάρφεος

Structure: καρφο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from KA/RFW

Sense

  1. a dry stalk, the dry sticks, dry twigs, chips, straws, bits of wool

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

  • καὶ ἀνέστρεψε πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἡ περιστερὰ τὸ πρὸσ ἑσπέραν, καὶ εἶχε φύλλον ἐλαίασ κάρφοσ ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτῆσ, καὶ ἔγνω Νῶε ὅτι κεκόπακε τὸ ὕδωρ ἀπὸ τῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 8:11)
  • ἐπεὶ ’θέλω ’γὼ σωφρόνωσ ὥσπερ κόρη καθῆσθαι, λυποῦσα μηδέν’ ἐνθαδί, κινοῦσα μηδὲ κάρφοσ, ἢν μή τισ ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Agon, prelude5)
  • κάρφοσ χαμᾶθέν νυν λαβὼν τὸν λύχνον πρόμυξον. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Parodos, prelude14)
  • "εἴρετο γάρ μιν ἀπὸ τῆσ κύλικοσ κάρφοσ τῷ μικρῷ δακτύλῳ ἀφαιρετέοντα, εἰ καθορᾷ τὸ κάρφοσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 8121)

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

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