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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

  • καὶ νυκτικόρακα καὶ καταρράκτην καὶ ἶβιν (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 11:17)
  • καὶ ἐπάταξεν αὐτὸν καὶ ἐνέβαλεν αὐτὸν εἰς τὸν καταρράκτην, ὃς ἦν ἐν πύλῃ οἴκου ἀποτεταγμένου τοῦ ὑπερῴου, ὃς ἦν ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 20:2)
  • ἐπεὶ δ ἀφῖκτο τὸν καταρράκτην ὀδὸν χαλκοῖς βάθροισι γῆθεν ἐρριζωμένον, ἔστη κελεύθων ἐν πολυσχίστων μιᾷ, κοίλου πέλας κρατῆρος, οὗ τὰ Θησέως Περίθου τε κεῖται πίστ ἀεὶ ξυνθήματα. (Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, episode9)
  • Λυσίμαχος δὲ τὴν νῦν πόλιν τειχίσας, ἀηδῶς τῶν ἀνθρώπων μεθισταμένων, τηρήσας καταρράκτην ὄμβρον συνήργησε καὶ αὐτὸς καὶ τοὺς ῥινούχους ἐνέφραξεν ὥστε κατακλύσαι τὴν πόλιν: (Strabo, Geography, Book 14, chapter 1 36:3)

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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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