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καρκίνος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καρκίνος καρκίνου

Structure: καρκιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. crab
  2. Cancer, the zodiac sign
  3. sore, ulcer, cancer
  4. items which resemble a crab's pincers, pair of pincers, a type of torture instrument
  5. temple bones
  6. type of shoe
  7. type of bandage
  8. pair of compasses
  9. still

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

  • οὔποτε ποιήσεισ τὸν καρκίνον ὀρθὰ βαδίζειν. (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, dactyls13)
  • ὥστ’ ἔφη Θέωροσ εἰπεῖν καρκίνον Κορίνθιον, δεινά γ’ ὦ Πόσειδον εἰ μήτ’ ἐν βυθῷ δυνήσομαι μήτε γῇ μήτ’ ἐν θαλάττῃ διαφυγεῖν τοὺσ ἱππέασ. (Aristotle, Parabasis, antepirrheme12)
  • πάντα τε τὰ ζῷα δύο ἡγεμόνασ ἔχειν πόδασ, καρκίνον δέ τέσσαρασ, ὅσα δ’ ἔναιμά ἐστι, φησί, τῶν ζῴων ἢ ἄποδά ἐστιν ἢ δίποδα ἢ τετράποδα, ὅσα δὲ τῶν τεσσάρων πλείονασ ἔχει πόδασ ἄναιμά ἐστι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 49 1:1)
  • φέρε γὰρ Ἡρόφιλον ἢ Ἐρασίστρατον ἢ τὸν Ἀσκληπιὸν αὐτόν, ὅτ’ ἦν ἄνθρωποσ, ἔχοντα τὰ φάρμακα καὶ τὰ ὄργανα, κατ’ οἰκίαν προσιστάμενον ἀνακρίνειν μή τισ ἔχει σύριγγα παρὰ δακτύλιον ἢ γυνὴ καρκίνον ἐν ὑστέρᾳ· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 72)
  • σύριγγα περὶ δακτύλιον ἢ γυνὴ καρκίνον ἐν ὑστέρᾳ· (Plutarch, De curiositate, section 7 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. crab

  2. Cancer

  3. temple bones

  4. type of bandage

  5. pair of compasses

  6. still

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