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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

  • τότε, ὦ Ἀθηναῖοι, τότε οἱ μὲν πρότερον ὄντεσ λαμπροὶ διὰ τοὺσ ἡγεμόνασ Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ ὑπὸ τοῖσ ἐκείνων ἤθεσι τραφέντεσ ταπεινοὶ πρὸσ τὴν πόλιν ἡμῶν ἧκον, δεόμενοι τῆσ παρὰ τῶν προγόνων ἡμῶν σωτηρίασ, ὁ δὲ καταλυθεὶσ ὑπ’ ἐκείνων δῆμοσ διὰ τοὺσ τότε γενομένουσ παρ’ ἡμῖν συμβούλουσ πάλιν ἡγεμὼν ἦν τῶν Ἑλλήνων, δικαίωσ οἶμαι, στρατηγῶν μὲν τοιούτων τετυχηκὼσ οἱών εἶπον ἀρτίωσ, συμβούλουσ δ’ ἔχων Ἀρχῖνον καὶ Κέφαλον τὸν Κολλυτέα. (Dinarchus, Speeches, 91:1)
  • Δωρίων δ’ ἐν τῷ περὶ ἰχθύων τῶν κεστρέων τὸν μὲν θαλάττιον ἐκτίθεται, τὸν δὲ ποτάμιον οὐ δοκιμάζει, εἴδη δὲ τοῦ θαλαττίου κέφαλον καὶ νῆστιν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 77 1:1)
  • Εὐθύδημοσ δ’ ὁ Ἀθηναῖοσ ἐν τῷ περὶ ταρίχων εἴδη κεστρέων εἶναι κέφαλον καὶ σφηνέα καὶ δακτυλέα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 77 4:1)
  • λάμβανε δ’ ἐκ Γαίσωνοσ ὅταν Μίλητον ἵκηαι, κεστρέα τὸν κέφαλον καὶ τὸν θεόπαιδα λάβρακα. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 86 2:4)
  • λέγοντα ποιεῖ λαβοῦ, λαβοῦ τῆσ χειρὸσ ὡσ τάχιστά μου, μέλλω στρατηγὸν χειροτονεῖν Ἀγύρριον καὶ πάλιν αἰτοῦντα λεκάνην καὶ πτερόν, ὅπωσ ἐμέσῃ, λέγοντα προσίσταταί μου πρὸσ τὸ βῆμα Μαντίασ καὶ βόσκει δυσώδη Κέφαλον, ἐχθίστην νόσον. (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 4 21:1)

Synonyms

  1. a species of mullet

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