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καταρρακτός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταρρακτός καταρρακτή καταρρακτόν

Structure: καταρρακτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = katarra/kths,

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

  • καὶ εἰσηνέγκατε πάντα τὰ ἐκφόρια εἰσ τοὺσ θησαυρούσ, καὶ ἔσται ἡ διαρπαγὴ αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ. ἐπιστρέψατε δὴ ἐν τούτῳ, λέγει Κύριοσ παντοκράτωρ, ἐὰν μὴ ἀνοίξω ὑμῖν τοὺσ καταρράκτασ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἐκχεῶ τὴν εὐλογίαν μου ὑμῖν ἕωσ τοῦ ἱκανωθῆναι. (Septuagint, Prophetia Malachiae 3:10)
  • ἐκείνων δὲ τῶν τὰσ ἄκρασ καταλαμβανόντων καὶ τοὺσ δορυφόρουσ τρεφόντων καὶ τὰ ὅπλα καὶ τὰσ πύλασ καὶ τοὺσ καταρράκτασ προβαλλομένων ὑπὲρ τῆσ τοῦ σώματοσ ἀσφαλείασ ὀλίγοι τὸν ἐκ πληγῆσ θάνατον, ὥσπερ οἱ λαγωοὶ, διέφυγον οἶκοσ δὲ ἢ γένοσ ἢ τάφοσ ἔχων τιμωμένην μνήμην οὐδενὸσ λέλειπται. (Plutarch, Aratus, chapter 26 4:1)
  • ἡ δὲ τὴν ὀργὴν αὐτοῦ φοβηθεῖσα καὶ τὴν ἀπόνοιαν εἰσ τὸν τάφον κατέφυγε καὶ τοὺσ καταρράκτασ ἀφῆκε κλείθροισ καὶ μοχλοῖσ καρτεροὺσ ὄντασ· (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 76 2:2)
  • αὗται κεραίασ εἶχον ἐπιβεβηκυίασ στώμιξιν ὀρθαῖσ πλαγίασ, εὐτρόχουσ, ὅπη βουληθείη τισ ἅμα νοήματι περιάγεσθαι δυναμένασ, ἐπ’ ἄκρων δὲ τῶν κεραιῶν ἢ τριόδοντεσ ἦσαν ἢ κέστροι μαχαιροειδεῖσ ἢ δρέπανα ὁλοσίδηρα, ἢ καταρράκτασ τινὰσ ἐπιρριπτοῦντασ ἄνωθεν βαρεῖσ κόρακασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 20, chapter 1 5:3)
  • ἀναστείλασ δὲ τοὺσ πρὸ αὐτῶν μαχομένουσ καὶ τοὺσ καταρράκτασ τῶν πυλῶν διακόψασ ἐντὸσ ἐγεγόνει τῶν ἐρυμάτων, καὶ τοὺσ ἐπιόντασ τῶν σφετέρων πεζῶν ἐδέχετο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 67 11:3)

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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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