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κέλης

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κέλης κέλητος

Structure: κελητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ke/llw

Sense

  1. a courser, riding-horse
  2. a fast-sailing yacht, a light vessel

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κέλης κέλητε κέλητες
Genitive κέλητος κελήτοιν κελήτων
Dative κέλητι κελήτοιν κέλησιν*
Accusative κέλητα κέλητε κέλητας
Vocative κέλη κέλητε κέλητες

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

  • τρίτῃ δὲ μετὰ ταῦθ’ ἱπποδρομίαν ἄξετε, ἵνα δὴ κέλησ κέλητα παρακελητιεῖ, ἁρ́ματα δ’ ἐπ’ ἀλλήλοισιν ἀνατετραμμένα φυσῶντα καὶ πνέοντα προσκινήσεται· (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, iambics31)
  • "οἱ δὲ καὶ δὴ νικῶσι, καθάπερ ἠρῶντο ἐπικρατῆσαι τῶν ἐχθρῶν" ὁ δὲ κέλησ οὗτοσ ἦν, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, οὐρανοπετήσ· (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 39 3:2)
  • τῷ δ’ Ἐτεονίκῳ ὁ ὑπηρετικὸσ κέλησ πάντα ἐξήγγειλε τὰ περὶ τὴν ναυμαχίαν. (Xenophon, Hellenica, , chapter 6 41:1)

Synonyms

  1. a courser

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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