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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

  • παρὰ τίνοσ γὰρ ἡμεῖσ ἐμάθομεν νοσοῦντεσ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ποταμοὺσ χάριν τῶν καρκίνων βαδίζειν; (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 9 3:1)
  • ἐπεὶ δὲ πλησίον ἦσαν, διαστάντεσ οἱ μὲν ἔνθεν, οἱ δὲ ἔνθεν ἔβαλλον ἡμᾶσ σηπίαισ ξηραῖσ καὶ ὀφθαλμοῖσ καρκίνων. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 39:3)
  • σέλινον ἀναθεῖναι λέγονται, καὶ Τενέδιοι τὸν πέλεκυν ἀπὸ τῶν καρκίνων τῶν γιγνομένων περὶ τὸ καλούμενον Ἀστέριον παρ’ αὐτοῖσ· (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 12 2:1)
  • "τῶν καρκίνων δ’ εἰσὶν σαρκωδέστεροι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 683)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἄλλωσ δῆλον· πῦρ δὲ καὶ ἄση τοῦ παντὸσ καὶ σκληρίη ξύνεστιν, ᾗπερ τοῖσι θηριώδεσι, θανατώδεα ὄντα ἕλκεα, ἀτὰρ καὶ ἐπίκλησιν ἴσχει καρκίνων. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., , 284)

Synonyms

  1. crab

  2. Cancer

  3. temple bones

  4. type of bandage

  5. pair of compasses

  6. still

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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