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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

  • Ζητῶν δὲ ἀεὶ πρὸσ ἐμαυτὸν οὔπω καὶ τήμερον εὑρεῖν δεδύνημαι τίνοσ ἕνεκα τὴν σπουδὴν ταύτην ἐσπούδακασ περὶ τὴν ὠνὴν τῶν βιβλίων ὠφελείασ μὲν γὰρ ἢ χρείασ τῆσ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν οὐδ’ ἂν οἰηθείη τισ τῶν καὶ ἐπ’ ἐλάχιστόν σε εἰδότων, οὐ μᾶλλον ἢ φαλακρὸσ ἄν τισ πρίαιτο κτένασ ἢ κάτοπτρον ὁ τυφλὸσ ἢ ὁ κωφὸσ αὐλητὴν ἢ παλλακὴν ὁ εὐνοῦχοσ ἢ ὁ ἠπειρώτησ κώπην ἢ ὁ κυβερνήτησ ἄροτρον. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 19:2)
  • ἵνα δὲ καὶ γελοιοτέρῳ τινὶ τὰ σὰ εἰκάσω, τοὺσ κουρέασ τούτουσ ἐπίσκεψαι, καὶ ὄψει τοὺσ μὲν τεχνίτασ αὐτῶν ξυρὸν καὶ μαχαιρίδασ καὶ κάτοπτρον σύμμετρον ἔχοντασ, τοὺσ δὲ. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 29:3)
  • ἀμαθεῖσ καὶ ἰδιώτασ πλῆθοσ μαχαιρίδων προτιθέντασ καὶ κάτοπτρον μεγάλα, οὐ μὴν λήσειν γε διὰ ταῦτα οὐδὲν εἰδότασ. (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 29:4)
  • ^ Οὔκ, ἀλλὰ χρυσίον τουτὶ καὶ μύρον καὶ μαχαίριον κουρευτικὸν ^ καὶ κάτοπτρον καὶ κύβουσ. (Lucian, Piscator, (no name) 45:4)
  • γυναῖκα φαρμακίδ’ εἰ πριάμενοσ Θετταλὴν καθέλοιμι νύκτωρ τὴν σελήνην, εἶτα δὴ αὐτὴν καθείρξαιμ’ ἐσ λοφεῖον στρογγύλον, ὥσπερ κάτοπτρον, κᾆτα τηροίην ἔχων ‐ τί δῆτα τοῦτ’ ἂν ὠφελήσειέν σ’; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Lyric-Scene, iambics 1:22)

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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