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καύσων

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καύσων καύσωνος

Structure: καυσων (Stem)

Etym.: kai/w

Sense

  1. burning heat

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ ἐγένετο ἅμα τῷ ἀνατεῖλαι τὸν ἥλιον καὶ προσέταξεν ὁ Θεὸσ πνεύματι καύσωνι συγκαίοντι, καὶ ἐπάταξεν ὁ ἥλιοσ ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν τοῦ Ἰωνᾶ. καὶ ὠλιγοψύχησε καὶ ἐπελέγετο τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπε. καλόν μοι ἀποθανεῖν με ἢ ζῆν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ionae 4:8)
  • ἀνέτειλεν γὰρ ὁ ἥλιοσ σὺν τῷ καύσωνι καὶ ἐξήρανεν τὸν χόρτον, καὶ τὸ ἄνθοσ αὐτοῦ ἐξέπεσεν καὶ ἡ εὐπρέπεια τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ ἀπώλετο· (IAKWBOU, chapter 1 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. burning heat

Related

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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