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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

  • καὶ κεφάλουσ μὲν λέγεσθαι διὰ τὸ βαρυτέραν τὴν κεφαλὴν ἔχειν, σφηνέασ δὲ ὅτι λαγαροὶ καὶ τετράγωνοι, τὰ δὲ τῶν δακτυλέων τὸ πλάτοσ ἔχει ἔλασσον τῶν δυεῖν δακτύλων. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 77 4:2)
  • ὅτι δὲ εἶδοσ κεστρέων οἱ νήστεισ Ἄρχιπποσ Ἡρακλεῖ γαμοῦντί φησιν νήστεισ κεστρέασ, κεφάλουσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 7, book 7, chapter 791)

Synonyms

  1. a species of mullet

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