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καρπός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καρπός καρποῦ

Structure: καρπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. fruit, grain, produce, harvest
  2. the product of something: children (fruit of the body), poetry (fruit of the mind), profit

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

  • λέγω δὲ κτήματα μέν, οἱο͂ν καρποῖσ καὶ ἐσθῆτι ποία συμφέρει, καὶ τῶν καρπῶν ποία ξηροῖσ καὶ ποία ὑγροῖσ, καὶ τῶν ἄλλων κτημάτων ποία ἐμψύχοισ καὶ ποία ἀψύχοισ, καὶ δούλοισ καὶ ἐλευθέροισ, καὶ γυναιξὶ καὶ ἀνδράσι, καὶ ξένοισ καὶ ἀστοῖσ. (Aristotle, Economics, Book 1 42:2)
  • καὶ δῆτα ἡ μὲν ἐφ’ ὑψηλοῦ καθήσθω πάνυ καλὴ καὶ εὐπρόσωποσ, τὸ τῆσ Ἀμαλθείασ κέρασ ἔχουσα ἐν τῇ δεξιᾷ παντοίοισ καρποῖσ ὑπερβρύον· (Lucian, Rhetorum praeceptor, (no name) 6:3)
  • μισεῖ σ’ ἁ Δᾶλοσ καὶ δάφνασ ἔρνεα φοίνικα παρ’ ἁβροκόμαν, ἔνθα λοχεύματα σέμν’ ἐλοχεύσατο Λατὼ Δίοισί σε καρποῖσ. (Euripides, Ion, episode, lyric 2:4)
  • ἂν καλῶν ἐπὶ δεῖπνον ἑτέρουσ παραλίπῃσ ἐκεῖνον, ἂν ἀσχολίασ σοι γενομένησ ἐπὶ θύρασ μὴ ἔλθῃσ ἢ μὴ προσείπῃσ, διέδεταί σου τὸ σῶμα προσφὺσ ἢ συλλαβὼν ἀποτυμπανιεῖ τὸ παιδίον, ἢ θηρίον ἔχων τοῖσ καρποῖσ ἐφήσει καὶ λυμανεῖται τὴν ὀπώραν. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 10 5:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ὁ μὲν Κικέρων φησὶν αὐτὸν ὥσπερ ἐν τῇ Πλάτωνοσ πολιτείᾳ καὶ οὐκ ἐν τῇ Ῥωμύλου πολιτευόμενον ὑποστάθμῃ τῆσ ὑπατείασ ἐκπεσεῖν, ἐμοὶ δὲ ταὐτὸ δοκεῖ παθεῖν τοῖσ μὴ καθ’ ὡρ́αν ἐκφανεῖσι καρποῖσ. (Plutarch, chapter 3 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. fruit

  2. the product of something

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