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κέφαλος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κέφαλος κεφάλου

Structure: κεφαλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a species of mullet

Declension

Second 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

  • λευκίσκοι, κέφαλοι, κεστρεῖσ, μυξῖνοι, χελλῶνεσ ὅμοιοί εἰσι κατὰ τὴν προσφοράν, τοῦ δὲ κεφάλου καταδεέστερόσ ἐστιν ὁ κεστρεύσ, ἥσσων δὲ ὁ μυξῖνοσ, τελευταῖοσ ὁ χελλών. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 52 3:5)
  • "λέγονται γὰρ οἱ μὲν κέφαλοι, οἱ δὲ κεστρεῖσ, ἄλλοι δὲ χελλῶνεσ, οἱ δὲ μυξῖνοι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 774)
  • "ἄριστοι δ’ εἰσὶν οἱ κέφαλοι καὶ πρὸσ τὴν γεῦσιν καὶ πρὸσ τὴν εὐχυλίαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 775)
  • οἱ κέφαλοι δέ, ἅτε ἰχθύων ὄντεσ τῶν πηλαίων, ποταμῶν φίλοι τῶν θολερωτέρων εἰσί. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 34 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a species of mullet

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