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κατηφών

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατηφών κατηφόνος

Structure: κατηφων (Stem)

Etym.: kathfe/w

Sense

  1. one who causes grief or shame, dedecora

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κατηφών κατηφόνε κατηφόνες
Genitive κατηφόνος κατηφόνοιν κατηφόνων
Dative κατηφόνι κατηφόνοιν κατηφόσιν*
Accusative κατηφόνα κατηφόνε κατηφόνας
Vocative κατηφών κατηφόνε κατηφόνες

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

  • σπεύσατέ μοι κακὰ τέκνα κατηφόνεσ· (Homer, Iliad, Book 24 22:5)

Similar forms

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

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