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κεραία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεραία

Structure: κεραι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: ke/ras

Sense

any thing projecting like a horn; a yard-arm
the projecting beam
a branching stake of wood, of the forked ends of the ancilia
the apex, a dot, tittle
the projecting spur
a bow of horn

Declension

First declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	κεραία	κεραίᾱ	κεραῖαι
Genitive	κεραίᾱς	κεραίαιν	κεραιῶν
Dative	κεραίᾱͅ	κεραίαιν	κεραίαις
Accusative	κεραίᾱν	κεραίᾱ	κεραίᾱς
Vocative	κεραίᾱ	κεραίᾱ	κεραῖαι

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

"τί δ’ οὐκ ἔμελλεν αὐτὸσ οὕτω σπαργῶν περιμανῶσ καὶ σφαδάζων πρὸσ δόξαν, ὥστε μὴ μόνον ἀπολέγεσθαι τοὺσ καθηγητὰσ μηδὲ Δημοκρίτῳ τῷ τὰ δόγματα ῥήμασιν αὐτοῖσ ἀφαιρουμένῳ ζυγομαχεῖν περὶ συλλαβῶν καὶ κεραιῶν, σοφὸν δὲ μηδένα φάναι πλὴν αὑτοῦ γεγονέναι καὶ τῶν μαθητῶν· (Plutarch, Non posse suaviter vivi secundum Epicurum, section 18 1:9)
αὗται κεραίασ εἶχον ἐπιβεβηκυίασ στώμιξιν ὀρθαῖσ πλαγίασ, εὐτρόχουσ, ὅπη βουληθείη τισ ἅμα νοήματι περιάγεσθαι δυναμένασ, ἐπ’ ἄκρων δὲ τῶν κεραιῶν ἢ τριόδοντεσ ἦσαν ἢ κέστροι μαχαιροειδεῖσ ἢ δρέπανα ὁλοσίδηρα, ἢ καταρράκτασ τινὰσ ἐπιρριπτοῦντασ ἄνωθεν βαρεῖσ κόρακασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 20, chapter 1 5:3)
κάμνων δὲ ὡσ ἐν στενῷ, καὶ βαλλόμενοσ ἄνωθεν ἔκ τε μετώπου καὶ τῶν κεραιῶν ὡσ ἐν μηνοειδέσι χωρίοισ, τοῦ μὲν ἐπιχειρεῖν ἔτι τῷ Πειραιεῖ πάμπαν ἀπεῖχε τῇ γνώμῃ, καὶ ἐσ πολιορκίαν, ὡσ λιμῷ παραστησόμενοσ αὐτούσ, καθίστατο· (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5 10:7)
οἱ δ’ ἐπὶ τῶν μεγάλων πλοίων ἐφεστῶτεσ ἐπέρριψαν ταῖσ τῶν πολεμίων ναυσὶ τοὺσ ἀπὸ τῶν κεραιῶν λίθουσ· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 78 7:2)
πλεῖστοι δ’ ὑπὸ τῶν λιθοφόρων κεραιῶν ἔπιπτον, ὡσ ἂν ἐξ ὑπερδεξίων τόπων βαλλόντων λίθουσ ὑπερμεγέθεισ τῶν Ἀθηναίων. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 79 3:2)

Synonyms

the projecting beam
- δοκός (beam)
- ἱστός ( beam )
- πῆχυς ( the beam)
a bow of horn
- βιός (a bow)
- τόξον (bow )
- κέρας (horn )
- κέρας (horn )

κεραίω (mix)
πλόκανον (a plaited rope)
προμετωπίδιος (before or on the forehead)
γέρρον (anything made of wicker-work)
δορυδρέπανον (halbert)
κρίκος (ring)
πετροβόλος (throwing stones)
λιθοβόλος (struck with stones)
καταπέλτης (catapult)
ὀπίσθιος (hinder)
σκύτινος (leathern)
καμάρᾱ (Anything with an arched cover such as a covered carriage or boat)
στοῖχος (a row)
σάγαρις (a single edged axe or bill)
παραμηρίδιος (along the thighs)
διάφραγμα (a partition-wall)
ἀραρότως (compactly)
ἐπιτρέχω (to run upon or at)
ἐμπρόσθιος (fore)
ἀντιπρόσωπος (with the face towards)
κάταντα (down-hill)
πλινθίον (a small brick)
ἀμφίστομος (with double mouth)
ἐγγώνιος (forming an angle)
καλάμινος (made of reed)
σάρισα (the sarissa)
κλίσις (bending)
ἀμυντήριος (defensive)
ἀμυντήριον (a means of defence)
σπειρηδόν (in coils or spires)

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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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a bow of horn

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the projecting beam

a bow of horn

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