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καυνάκης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: καυνάκης καυνάκου

Structure: καυνακ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. a Persian word.

Sense

  1. a thick cloak

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative καυνάκης καυνάκᾱ καυνάκαι
Genitive καυνάκου καυνάκαιν καυνακῶν
Dative καυνάκῃ καυνάκαιν καυνάκαις
Accusative καυνάκην καυνάκᾱ καυνάκᾱς
Vocative καυνάκα καυνάκᾱ καυνάκαι

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

  • "καυνάκασ τε περιβεβλημένοι παρέρχονται οἱ μὲν ἐκ παρόδου, οἱ δὲ κατὰ μέσασ τὰσ θύρασ, βαίνοντεσ ἐν ῥυθμῷ καὶ λέγοντεσ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 166)
  • πόδασ δὲ εἶναι τῇ κλίνῃ χρυσοῦσ σφυρηλάτουσ καὶ τάπητα ἐπίβλημα τῶν Βαβυλωνίων καὶ καυνάκασ πορφυροῦσ ὑποστρώματα. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 6, chapter 29 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a thick cloak

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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