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κέλυφος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κέλυφος κέλυφεος

Structure: κελυφο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. a sheath, case, pod, shell, the hollow
  2. husks, boat, coffin

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κέλυφος κελύφει κελύφη
Genitive κελύφους κελύφοιν κελυφέων
Dative κελύφει κελύφοιν κελύφεσιν*
Accusative κέλυφος κελύφει κελύφη
Vocative κέλυφος κελύφει κελύφη

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

  • Δημήτριοσ δ’ ὁ Σκήψιοσ ἐν ἕκτῳ καὶ εἰκοστῷ τοῦ Τρωικοῦ διακόσμου Λάκωνὰ φησί τινα κληθέντα ἐπὶ θοῖναν παρατεθέντων ἐπὶ τὴν τράπεζαν θαλαττίων ἐχίνων ἐπιλαβέσθαι ἑνόσ, οὐκ εἰδότα τὴν χρῆσιν τοῦ ἐδέσματοσ, ἀλλ’ οὐδὲ προσέχοντα τοῖσ συνδειπνοῦσι πῶσ ἀναλίσκουσιν ἐνθέντα δὲ εἰσ τὸ στόμα σὺν τῷ κελύφει βρύκειν τοῖσ ὀδοῦσι τὸν ἐχῖνον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 40 6:4)
  • ὅτι τὸ κοχλίου ἀγαθὸν οὐκ εἰκὸσ εἶναι ἐν τῷ κελύφει, τὸ οὖν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου εἰκόσ; (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 17:3)
  • Ἐπινοεῖ καὶ Ἐπίκουροσ ὅτι φύσει ἐσμὲν κοινωνικοί, ἀλλ’ ἅπαξ ἐν τῷ κελύφει θεὶσ τὸ ἀγαθὸν ἡμῶν οὐκέτι δύναται ἄλλο οὐδὲν εἰπεῖν. (Epictetus, Works, book 1, 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a sheath

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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