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καταρράκτης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταρράκτης καταρράκτες

Structure: καταρρακτη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: katarrh/gnumi

Sense

  1. down-rushing, downward
  2. broken water, a waterfall
  3. a kind of portcullis
  4. rushing down upon, a gull

Examples

  • καὶ ἡρ́ωσιν ὄρνισι καὶ ἡρώων παισί, πορφυρίωνι καὶ πελεκᾶντι καὶ πελεκίνῳ καὶ φλέξιδι καὶ τέτρακι καὶ ταὧνι καὶ ἐλεᾷ καὶ βασκᾷ καὶ ἐλασᾷ καὶ ἐρωδιῷ καὶ καταρράκτῃ καὶ μελαγκορύφῳ καὶ αἰγιθάλλῳ ‐ παῦ’ ἐσ κόρακασ, παῦσαι καλῶν. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, strophe 1 1:11)
  • ἐκεῖνοσ γὰρ Ἀντίγονον μὲν ἔχων σύμμαχον, τρέφων δὲ πολλοὺσ ἕνεκα τῆσ τοῦ σώματοσ ἀσφαλείασ, οὐδένα δὲ ἐν τῇ πόλει ζῶντα τῶν ἐχθρῶν ὑπολελοιπώσ, τοὺσ μὲν δορυφόρουσ καὶ φύλακασ ἔξω παρεμβάλλειν ἐκέλευεν ἐν τῷ περιστύλῳ, τοὺσ δὲ οἰκέτασ, ὁπότε δειπνήσαι, τάχιστα πάντασ ἐξελαύνων καὶ τὴν μέταυλον ἀποκλείων μετὰ τῆσ ἐρωμένησ αὐτὸσ εἰσ οἴκημα κατεδύετο μικρὸν ὑπερῷον, θύρᾳ καταρρακτῇ κλειόμενον· (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 26 1:1)
  • τῆσ δὲ ναυαρχίδοσ καταρράκτῃ μεγάλῳ περιπεσούσησ ὁ βασιλεὺσ εἰσ τὸν ἔσχατον ἦλθε κίνδυνον. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 97 3:1)
  • καὶ ἐκείμην ἐν Δέσσῃ πρὸσ τῷ καταρράκτῃ, καὶ μόλισ ἡμέρᾳ ἑκατοστῇ ὕστερον ᾗ ἐκινήθην οἴκοθεν ἐν Ῥώμῃ γίγνομαι. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 15:2)

Synonyms

  1. down-rushing

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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