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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

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

  • Κυτμίδα χρίεσθαι κέλομαι δροσίην τε κέλητοσ· (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 53:2)
  • οὐκέτι, Τιμάριον, τὸ πρὶν γλαφυροῖο κέλητοσ πῆγμα φέρει πλωτὸν Κύπριδοσ εἰρεσίην· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2041)
  • τοῦτον μὲν οὖν ἐπὶ κέλητοσ ἐξέπεμψαν· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiv, chapter 30 4:3)
  • ὡσ γὰρ ἀγχοῦ γενέσθαι τῶν νεῶν, τοὺσ ἀπὸ τοῦ κέλητοσ λέγειν τάδε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 8, chapter 94 3:3)
  • αὐτόσ τε οὖν ἁρ́ματι καὶ Ιἄσιοσ ἀνὴρ Ἀρκὰσ κέλητοσ ἐνίκησεν ἵππου δρόμῳ, Τυνδάρεω δὲ οἱ παῖδεσ ὁ μὲν δρόμῳ, Πολυδεύκησ δὲ πυκτεύων. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 8 6:2)

Synonyms

  1. a courser

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

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