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καταρρακτός?

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration: katarraktos

Principal Part: καταρρακτός καταρρακτή καταρρακτόν

Structure: καταρρακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a trap-door

Declension

First/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

  • "δεῖ δὲ καὶ τὴν ἐν ὄμμασι καὶ τὴν ἐν ὠσὶ γαργαλίζουσαν μαλακίαν καὶ ἡδυπάθειαν φοβεῖσθαι, καὶ μήτε πόλιν ἀνάλωτον νομίζειν τὴν τὰς ἄλλας πύλας βαλανάγραις καὶ μοχλοῖς καὶ καταρράκταις ὀχυρὰς ἔχουσαν, ἂν διὰ μιᾶς οἱ πολέμιοι παρελθόντες ἔνδον εἰσίν: (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 7, 9:10)
  • καίτοι ἥ γ Ἐλεφαντίνη, μέχρι ἧς ἀναπλεῦσαί φησιν, ὑπ αὐτοῖς σχεδὸν τοῦ Νείλου τοῖς καταρράκταις ἐστὶν, ἀπέχουσα μάλιστα ἑπτὰ σταδίους. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 13:7)
  • ὅπερ οὖν λέγω οὐκ ἀκούσας, ἀλλ ἰδὼν ἀκριβῶς οἶδα, ὅτι ἥ τ Ἐλεφαντίνη ὑπ αὐτοῖς ἐστι τοῖς καταρράκταις, μεταξύ τε Συήνης καὶ Ἐλεφαντίνης οὐδέν ἐστιν ἀλλ ἢ τὸ ῥεῖθρον τοῦ ποταμοῦ, καὶ προσοικεῖ τὴν ὄχθην ἑκατέρα τῶν πόλεων τούτων. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 14:5)

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

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