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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

  • σκωπτόμενοι δ’ ἐν ταῖσ ὁδοῖσ θαλλοφόροι καλούμεθ’, ἀντωμοσιῶν κελύφη. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Agon, strophe8)
  • τὰ γὰρ πλοῖα ἦν αὐτοῖσ κελύφη καρύων ἡμίτομα, κεκενωμένα, μέγεθοσ δὲ ἑκάστου ἡμιτόμου εἰσ μῆκοσ ὀργυιαὶ πεντεκαίδεκα. (Lucian, Verae Historiae, book 2 38:2)
  • "μὴ πρὸσ τοῦτο μᾶλλον ὁ Ἐμπεδοκλῆσ πεποίηκε τὸ ἐπίθετον, ὅτι, τῶν ἄλλων καρπῶν τὸ ἔξωθεν ὑπὸ τοῦ φλοιοῦ περιεχομένων καὶ τὰ καλούμενα λεπύχανα καὶ κελύφη καὶ ὑμένασ καὶ λοβοὺσ ἐπιπολῆσ; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 5, 16:2)

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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