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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

  • ὡσ δὲ τοῖσ ἱερεῦσι πρώτοισ ἐμβᾶσι πορευτὸσ ἔδοξεν ὁ ποταμόσ, τοῦ μὲν βάθουσ ἐπεσχημένου, τοῦ δὲ κάχληκοσ τῷ μὴ πολὺν εἶναι μηδ’ ὀξὺν τὸν ῥοῦν ὥσθ’ ὑποφέρειν αὐτὸν τῇ βίᾳ ἀντ’ ἐδάφουσ κειμένου, πάντεσ ἤδη θαρσαλέωσ ἐπεραιοῦντο τὸν ποταμόν, οἱο͂ν αὐτὸν ὁ θεὸσ προεῖπε ποιήσειν τοιοῦτον κατανοοῦντεσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 5 22:1)

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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