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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

  • ὁ γοῦν ἔπαινοσ αὐτῷ τότ’ ἂν γίγνοιτο ἐντελὴσ παρὰ τῶν θεατῶν ὅταν ἕκαστοσ τῶν ὁρώντων γνωρίζῃ τὰ αὑτοῦ, μᾶλλον δὲ ὥσπερ ἐν κατόπτρῳ τῷ ὀρχηστῇ ^ ἑαυτὸν βλέπῃ καὶ ἃ πάσχειν αὐτὸσ καὶ ἃ ποιεῖν εἰώθεν· (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 81:2)
  • ἥτισ, θυγατρὸσ πρὶν κεκυρῶσθαι σφαγάσ, νέον τ’ ἀπ’ οἴκων ἀνδρὸσ ἐξωρμημένου, ξανθὸν κατόπτρῳ πλόκαμον ἐξήσκεισ κόμησ. (Euripides, episode, anapests 4:7)
  • μάλιστα δὲ κατόπτρῳ ἐοικυῖαν παρασχέσθω τὴν γνώμην ἀθόλῳ καὶ στιλπνῷ καὶ ἀκριβεῖ τὸ κέντρον, καὶ ὁποίασ ἂν δέξηται τὰσ μορφὰσ τῶν ἔργων, τοιαῦτα καὶ δεικνύτω αὐτά, διάστροφον δὲ ἢ παράχρουν ἢ ἑτερόσχημον μηδέν· (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 511)
  • "οἱ ὄρτυγεσ περὶ τὸν τῆσ ὀχείασ καιρόν, ἐὰν κάτοπτρον ἐξ ἐναντίασ τισ αὐτῶν καὶ πρὸ τούτου βρόχον θῇ, τρέχοντεσ πρὸσ τὸν ἐμφαινόμενον ἐν τῷ κατόπτρῳ ἐμπίπτουσιν εἰσ τὸν βρόχον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 47 2:2)
  • ἀναστάντα δεῖ τῷ κατόπτρῳ παραστῆναι καὶ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ ἅψασθαι, τὴν περικοπὴν τῶν τριχῶν ἐπισκοποῦντα καὶ τῆσ κουρᾶσ τὴν διαφοράν, ἐκ δὲ ἀκροάσεωσ ἀπιόντα καὶ σχολῆσ οὐκ εὐθὺσ ἀφορᾶν χρὴ πρὸσ ἑαυτόν, καταμανθάνοντα τὴν ψυχὴν εἴ τι τῶν ὀχληρῶν ἀποτεθειμένη καὶ περιττῶν ἐλαφροτέρα γέγονε καὶ ἡδίων. (Plutarch, De Recta Ratione Audiendi, chapter, section 8 8:1)

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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