Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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

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

  • "τὸ μὲν στρογγύλον ὥσπερ ὄροβοσ, κέλυφοσ ἔχον ὑπέρυθρον, τὸ δὲ πρόμηκεσ, μέλαν, σπερμάτια μηκωνικὰ ἔχον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 73 2:5)
  • "οἶκον δέ μοι δοκεῖσ, ὦ Αἴσωπε, ταυτὶ τὰ πήλινα καὶ ξύλινα καὶ κεραμεᾶ στεγάσματα νομίζειν, ὥσπερ εἰ κοχλίαν ἡγοῖο τὸ κέλυφοσ, ἀλλὰ μὴ τὸ ζῷον, εἰκότωσ οὖν σοι γέλωτα παρέσχεν ὁ Σόλων, ὅτι τοῦ Κροίσου τὴν οἰκίαν κεκοσμημένην πολυτελῶσ θεασάμενοσ οὐκ εὐθὺσ ἀπεφήνατο τὸν κεκτημένον εὐδαιμόνωσ οἰκεῖν καὶ μακαρίωσ, ἅτε δὴ τῶν ἐν αὐτῷ μᾶλλον ἀγαθῶν ἢ τῶν παρ’ αὐτῷ βουλόμενοσ γενέσθαι θεατήσ· (Plutarch, Septem sapientium convivium, chapter, section 12 3:4)
  • τοὶ δὲ κέλυφοσ ἔκαυσαν ἐπ’ ἀνέρι, τόφρ’ ὁ γεραιὸσ πλώσῃ ἐπ’ οἰκείησ εἰσ ἀίδην ἀκάτου. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 242 1:1)
  • βρέγμα πάλαι λαχναῖον, ἐρημαῖόν τε κέλυφοσ ὄμματοσ, ἀγλώσσου θ’ ἁρμονίη στόματοσ, ψυχῆσ ἀσθενὲσ ἑρ́κοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume III, book 9, chapter 4391)

Synonyms

  1. a sheath

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

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