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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

  • περιπλεῖν δ’ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἄμβωσιν ἄνω πέντε κέλητασ πεντασκάλμουσ, περιαγγέλλειν τ’· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 38 2:1)
  • ἐπέπλευσαν δὲ καὶ τῶν ἐμπόρων τισὶ καὶ παρελόμενοι κέλητασ οὐκ ὀλίγουσ γέμοντασ σίτου τούτουσ τε καὶ τὰ τῶν πειρατῶν ἄφρακτα κατήγαγον εἰσ τὴν Ῥόδον νυκτόσ, λαθόντεσ τοὺσ πολεμίουσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter 97 6:1)
  • Ἰνδοὶ δὲ σκευῇ μὲν ἐσεσάχατο τῇ αὐτῇ καὶ ἐν τῷ πεζῷ, ἤλαυνον δὲ κέλητασ καὶ ἁρ́ματα· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 7, chapter 86 2:3)

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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