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κενοτάφιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: κενοτάφιον κενοτάφιου

Structure: κενοταφι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: ta/fos

Sense

  1. an empty tomb, cenotaph

Declension

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 ἔλαβεν ἡ Μελχὸλ τὰ κενοτάφια καὶ ἔθετο ἐπὶ τὴν κλίνην καὶ ἧπαρ τῶν αἰγῶν ἔθετο πρὸσ κεφαλῆσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκάλυψεν αὐτὰ ἱματίῳ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 19:13)
  • καὶ ἔρχονται οἱ ἄγγελοι, καὶ ἰδοὺ τὰ κενοτάφια ἐπὶ τῆσ κλίνησ, καὶ ἧπαρ τῶν αἰγῶν πρὸσ κεφαλῆσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 19:16)
  • τοῖσ δὲ νικήσασιν τρίπουσ ὑπῆρχεν, οὐκ ἀνάθημα τῆσ νίκησ, ὡσ Δημήτριόσ φησιν, ἀλλ’ ἐπίσπεισμα τῶν ἐκκεχυμένων βίων καὶ τῶν ἐκλελοιπότων κενοτάφιον οἴκων. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 6 3:2)
  • τοῖσ δὲ νικήσασιν ὁ τρίπουσ ὑπῆρχεν, οὐκ ἀνάθημα τῆσ νίκησ, ὡσ Δημήτριόσ φησιν, ἀλλ’ ἐπίσπεισμα τῶν ἐκκεχυμένων βίων καὶ τῶν ἐκλελοιπότων κενοτάφιον οἴκων. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 6 11:2)
  • ἐτάφη ἐν Μακεδονίᾳ, κενοτάφιον δ’ αὐτοῦ Ἀθήνησιν ἐγένετο καὶ ἐπίγραμμα ἐπέγεγραπτο Θουκυδίδου τοῦ ἱστοριογράφου ποίησαντοσ ἢ Τιμοθέου τοῦ μελοποιοῦ· (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume II, , 1)
  • οὓσ δὲ μὴ ηὑρ́ισκον, κενοτάφιον αὐτοῖσ ἐποίησαν μέγα, καὶ στεφάνουσ ἐπέθεσαν. (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 4 11:7)
  • Κορίνθιοι δὲ ἐπί τι κενοτάφιον ἐπέγραψαν αὐτῷ τόδε· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, , 3:11)

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

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