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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

  • οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ Κυρίου ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἀγαπῶντασ αὐτόν. ὑπερασπισμὸσ δυναστείασ καὶ στήριγμα ἰσχύοσ, σκέπη ἀπὸ καύσωνοσ καὶ σκέπη ἀπὸ μεσημβρίασ, φυλακὴ ἀπὸ προσκόμματοσ καὶ βοήθεια ἀπὸ πτώσεωσ, (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 34:16)
  • ἴασισ πάντων κατὰ σπουδὴν ὁμίχλη, δρόσοσ ἀπαντῶσα ἀπὸ καύσωνοσ ἱλαρώσει. ‐ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 43:22)
  • στέφανοι πάνυ εὐώδεισ καὶ καύσωνοσ ὡρ́ᾳ ψυκτικώτατοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 2 3:1)

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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