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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

  • πρῶτον δέ γε εἰσέλθετ’ ἐσ νεοττιάν γε τὴν ἐμὴν καὶ τἀμὰ κάρφη καὶ τὰ παρόντα φρύγανα, καὶ τοὔνομ’ ἡμῖν φράσατον. (Aristophanes, Birds, Episode2)
  • ἐπεὶ τὸ τοιοῦτον ὅμοιον ἂν εἶναι τοῖσ τῶν παιδίων οἰκοδομήμασιν, ἃ κατασκευάσαντεσ ἐκεῖνοι ἀσθενῆ εὐθὺσ ἀνατρέπουσιν, ἢ καὶ νὴ Δία τοῖσ τοξεύειν μελετῶσιν, οἳ κάρφη τινὰ συνδήσαντεσ, ἔπειτα ἐπὶ κοντοῦ πήξαντεσ οὐ πόρρω προθέμενοι στοχάζονται ἀφιέντεσ, καὶ ἢν τύχωσί ποτε καὶ διαπείρωσι τὰ κάρφη, ἀνέκραγον εὐθὺσ ὥσ τι μέγα ποιήσαντεσ, εἰ διεξελήλυθεν αὐτοῖσ τὸ βέλοσ διὰ τῶν φρυγάνων. (Lucian, 69:2)

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

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