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κάστωρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 동물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάστωρ κάστορος

Structure: καστωρ (Stem)

Sense

  1. beaver

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

  • Ἔχεισ μοι εἰπεῖν, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, πότεροσ ὁ Κάστωρ ἐστὶ τούτων ἢ πότεροσ ὁ Πολυδεύκησ; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 1:1)
  • Ὁ μὲν χθὲσ ἡμῖν ξυγγενόμενοσ ἐκεῖνοσ Κάστωρ ἦν, οὗτοσ δὲ Πολυδεύκησ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 1:3)
  • δίπτυχοι δέ σε καλοῦσι μητρὸσ σύγγονοι Διόσκοροι, Κάστωρ κασίγνητόσ τε Πολυδεύκησ ὅδε. (Euripides, episode, anapests 1:2)
  • διὸ καὶ τῶν Τυνδαριδῶν πὺξ μὲν ὁ Πολυδεύκησ ἐνίκα δρόμον δ’ ὁ Κάστωρ. (Plutarch, De fraterno amore, section 15 3:2)
  • αὕτη δὲ γέγονεν ἑνδεκάτῳ μὲν ἔτει τῆσ Ἀλεξάνδρου τελευτῆσ, ἐπὶ δὲ ὀλυμπιάδοσ ἑβδόμησ καὶ δεκάτησ καὶ ἑκατοστῆσ, ὡσ ἱστορεῖ Κάστωρ. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 206:3)

Synonyms

  1. beaver

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