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κειμήλιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 기독교 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κειμήλιον

Structure: κειμηλι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: kei=mai

Sense

  1. Something stored or saved up, particularly:, An heirloom, a family's property
  2. Something precious, a treasure
  3. (Christianity) A holy relic, a sacred relic

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 ὁ Πρίαμοσ δὲ τόν υἱόν λυτρούμενοσ τοῖσ ἐπισημοτάτοισ κειμηλίοισ καὶ δέπασ δίδωσι περικαλλέσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 11, book 11, chapter 16 1:3)
  • φρουρᾶσ μὲν οὖν καὶ δεσμῶν οὐκ ἀνίει τὸν Ιὤσηπον, ἐδωρεῖτο δ’ ἐσθῆτι καὶ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ κειμηλίοισ φιλοφρονούμενόσ τε καὶ περιέπων διετέλει τὰ πολλὰ Τίτου τῇ τιμῇ συνεργοῦντοσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 486:1)

Synonyms

  1. Something precious

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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