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κάτοπτρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάτοπτρον κάτοπτρου

Structure: κατοπτρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: o)/yomai, fut. of o(ra/w

Sense

  1. a mirror
  2. a mere reflexion

Declension

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

  • Ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ τὴν ἀσπίδα προφαίνουσα ‐ τοιαῦτα γὰρ ἤκουσα διηγουμένου αὐτοῦ πρὸσ τὴν Ἀνδρομέδαν καὶ πρὸσ τὸν Κηφέα ὕστερον ‐ ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ δὴ ἐπὶ τῆσ ἀσπίδοσ ἀποστιλβούσησ ὥσπερ ἐπὶ τοῦ κατόπτρου παρέσχεν αὐτῷ ἰδεῖν τὴν εἰκόνα τῆσ Μεδούσησ· (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton and nhrides, chapter 2 1:1)
  • "καὶ οἱ μὲν κατοικεῖσθαὶ μέ φασιν, οἱ δὲ κατόπτρου δίκην ἐπικρέμασθαι τῇ θαλάττῃ, οἱ δὲ ὅ τι ἂν ἕκαστοσ ἐπινοήσῃ τοῦτό μοι προσάπτουσι. (Lucian, Icaromenippus, (no name) 20:6)
  • τίσ δαὶ κατόπτρου καὶ ξίφουσ κοινωνία; (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Prologue, iambics11)
  • "εἴρηκε γὰρ ὅτι , τοῦ κατόπτρου ἔνθεν καὶ ἔνθεν ὕψοσ λαβόντοσ, ὑπαλλάττουσιν αἱ ὄψεισ τὴν ἀνάκλασιν ἀπὸ τῶν ἑτέρων ἐπὶ θάτερα μεταπίπτουσαν. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 17 4:7)
  • ὄψεται γὰρ αὐτὸν οὐδαμοῦ βέβαιον οὐδ’ ἴδιον οὐδ’ οἰκείῳ πάθει φιλοῦντα καὶ μισοῦντα καὶ χαίροντα καὶ λυπούμενον, ἀλλὰ δίκην κατόπτρου παθῶν ὀθνείων καὶ βίων καὶ κινημάτων εἰκόνασ ἀναδεχόμενον. (Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur, chapter, section 8 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a mirror

  2. a mere reflexion

Related

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

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