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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

  • ὃ δή ἐστιν ἐοικὸσ καρκίνῳ μικρῷ καλούμενον πινοφύλαξ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 46 2:4)
  • πολὺ γάρ πού εἰμι φαυλότεροσ τοῦ Ἡρακλέουσ, ὃσ οὐχ οἱο͂́σ τε ἦν τῇ τε ὕδρᾳ διαμάχεσθαι, σοφιστρίᾳ οὔσῃ καὶ διὰ τὴν σοφίαν ἀνιείσῃ, εἰ μίαν κεφαλὴν τοῦ λόγου τισ ἀποτέμοι, πολλὰσ ἀντὶ τῆσ μιᾶσ, καὶ καρκίνῳ τινὶ ἑτέρῳ σοφιστῇ ἐκ θαλάττησ ἀφιγμένῳ, νεωστί, μοι δοκεῖν, καταπεπλευκότι· (Plato, Euthydemus, Protagoras, Gorgias, Meno, 343:3)
  • ἄλλοσ καρκίνοσ· ἕλκοσ μὲν οὐδαμῆ, ὄγκοσ δὲ σκληρὸσ, ἀτέραμνοσ · ξυντιταίνει δὲ τὴν ὑστέρην ὅλην, ἀτὰρ καὶ ἄλγεα κατὰ τὰ ἄλλα ὅσα ἐφέλκει · ταῦτα δὲ ἄμφω τὰ καρκινώ δεα καὶ χρόνια καὶ ὀλέθρια · πολλὸν δὲ τὸ ἕλκοσ τοῦ ἀνελκώτου κάκιον καὶ ὀσμῇ, καὶ πόνοισι, καὶ ζωῇ, καὶ θανάτῳ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 285)

Synonyms

  1. crab

  2. Cancer

  3. temple bones

  4. type of bandage

  5. pair of compasses

  6. still

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