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κεραία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεραία

Structure: κεραι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ke/ras

Sense

  1. any thing projecting like a horn; a yard-arm
  2. the projecting beam
  3. a branching stake of wood, of the forked ends of the ancilia
  4. the apex, a dot, tittle
  5. the projecting spur
  6. a bow of horn

Declension

First 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

  • τὰ δ̓ ἄλλα ἡλίκοσ μὲν ὁ ἱστόσ, ὅσην δὲ ἀνέχει τὴν κεραίαν, οἱῴ καὶ προτόνῳ κέχρηται καὶ συνέχεται, ὡσ δὲ ἡ πρύμνα μὲν ἐπανέστηκεν ἠρέμα καμπύλη χρυσοῦν χηνίσκον ἐπικειμένη, καταντικρὺ δὲ ἀνάλογον ἡ πρῷρα ὑπερβέβηκεν ἐσ τὸ πρόσω ἀπομηκυνομένη, τὴν ἐπώνυμον τῆσ νεὼσ θεὸν ἔχουσα τὴν Ἶσιν ἑκατέρωθεν· (Lucian, 10:2)
  • καὶ αὐτῶν δὲ τῶν ναυτῶν ἴδοισ ἂν τὸν μὲν ἀργὸν καὶ ἄτεχνον καὶ ἄτολμον πρὸσ τὰ ἔργα διμοιρίτην ἢ τριμοιρίτην, τὸν δὲ κατακολυμβῆσαί τε ἀόκνον καὶ ἐπὶ τὴν κεραίαν ἀναπηδῆσαι ῥᾴδιον καὶ εἰδότα τῶν χρησίμων ἕκαστα μόνον, τοῦτον ^ ἀντλεῖν προστεταγμένον· (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 48:1)
  • τοῦτ’ ἰδὼν κυβερνήτησ εὔχεται μὲν ὑπεκφυγεῖν καὶ θεοὺσ ἐπικαλεῖται σωτῆρασ, εὐχόμενοσ δὲ τὸν οἰάκα προσάγει, τὴν κεραίαν ὑφίησι, φεύγει μέγα λαῖφοσ ὑποστολίσασ ἐρεβώδεοσ ἐκ θαλάσσησ. (Plutarch, De superstitione, section 8 11:1)
  • καὶ καθίσαντεσ ἐπὶ τὴν κεραίαν ἑκατέρωθεν οἱ μὲν ἐβόων, οἱ δ’ ἔκοπτον τὰσ τῶν μηρυμάτων ἀρχάσ, καὶ πᾶσιν ἐδόκει τὸ σημεῖον εἶναι πονηρόν. (Plutarch, Cicero, chapter 47 5:3)
  • παρέτειναν δὲ καὶ κεραίαν διπλῆν ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἱστοῖσ ἀμφοτέροισ, καὶ ἀπὸ ταύτησ ἐξήρτησαν ἐν λέβησιν ὅσα ἐπιχυθέντα ἢ ἐπιβληθέντα ἐπὶ μέγα τὴν φλόγα ἐξάψειν ἔμελλεν, ἑρ́ματά τε ἐσ τὴν πρύμναν ἐνέθεσαν, τοῦ ἐξᾶραι ἐσ ὕψοσ τὴν πρῶραν πιεζομένησ κατὰ πρύμναν τῆσ νεώσ. (Arrian, Anabasis, book 2, chapter 19 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. the projecting beam

  2. a bow of horn

Related

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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