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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

  • πλησίον δὲ ἁρ́μα τέ ἐστι χαλκοῦν καὶ ἀνὴρ ἀναβεβηκὼσ ἐπ’ αὐτό, κέλητεσ δὲ ἵπποι παρὰ τὸ ἁρ́μα εἷσ ἑκατέρωθεν ἕστηκε καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἵππων καθέζονται παῖδεσ· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 12 2:1)
  • τούτων κατάφρακτα μὲν εἴκοσι διαφέροντα ταῖσ κατασκευαῖσ, ἐν οἷσ οὐδὲν ἔλαττον ἦν τετρήρουσ, τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ τριήρεισ καὶ δίκροτα καὶ κέλητεσ. (Polybius, Histories, book 5, chapter 62 3:1)
  • κέλητέσ τε καὶ λέμβοι πολλοὶ συνείποντο αὐτῷ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 3 1:2)

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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