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κενός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κενός κενή κενόν

Structure: κεν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. empty
  2. vain, fruitless
  3. exhausted, void, destitute

Declension

First/Second 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

  • καὶ τὸν Σωκράτη καθίζεσθαι καὶ εἰπεῖν ὅτι εὖ ἂν ἔχοι, φάναι, ὦ Ἀγάθων, εἰ τοιοῦτον εἰή ἡ σοφία ὥστ’ ἐκ τοῦ πληρεστέρου εἰσ τὸ κενώτερον ῥεῖν ἡμῶν, ἐὰν ἁπτώμεθα ἀλλήλων, ὥσπερ τὸ ἐν ταῖσ κύλιξιν ὕδωρ τὸ διὰ τοῦ ἐρίου ῥέον ἐκ τῆσ πληρεστέρασ εἰσ τὴν κενωτέραν. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 39:1)

Synonyms

  1. empty

  2. vain

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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