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κάχληξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάχληξ κάχληκος

Structure: καχληκ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. akin to xa/lic, Lat. calx, calculus.

Sense

  1. a pebble, gravel, shingle

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

  • Ποσειδώνιοσ δὲ λίμνην οὖσαν παγῆναι μετὰ κλυδασμοῦ, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο εἰσ πλείονασ μερισθῆναι λίθουσ, καθάπερ τοὺσ ποταμίουσ κάχληκασ καὶ τὰσ ψήφουσ τὰσ αἰγιαλίτιδασ, ὁμοίουσ δὲ καὶ λείουσ καὶ ἰσομεγέθεισ [πρὸσ] τῇ ὁμοιότητι· (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 1 14:9)

Synonyms

  1. a pebble

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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