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κερασός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 식물 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κερασός κερασοῦ

Structure: κερας (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bird cherry, Prunus avium (tree)

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

  • τάχα δ’ ἄν τισ καὶ κεράσια φαίη, κερασόν τὸ δένδρον ἐν τῷ Περὶ Φύσεωσ Ξενοφάνουσ εὑρών. (Unknown, Elegy and Iambus, Volume I, , 125)
  • κέρασον ἄκρατον, εὐφρανεῖ τὴν νύχθ’ ὅλην ἐκλεγομένασ ὅ τι ἂν μάλιστ’ ὀσμὴν ἔχῃ. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Episode6)
  • μεῖξον δ’ ἡμᾶσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ πάλιν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ φιλίασ χυλῷ καὶ συγγνώμῃ τινὶ πρᾳοτέρᾳ κέρασον τὸν νοῦν· (Aristophanes, Peace, Lyric-Scene, anapests7)
  • "ἀγνοεῖτε δὲ ὅτι Λεύκολλοσ ὁ Ῥωμαίων στρατηγόσ, ὁ τὸν Μιθριδάτην καὶ Τιγράνην καταγωνισάμενοσ, πρῶτοσ διεκόμισεν εἰσ Ἰταλίαν τὸ φυτὸν τοῦτο ἀπὸ Κερασοῦντοσ Ποντικῆσ πόλεωσ, καὶ οὗτόσ ἐστιν ὁ καὶ τὸν καρπὸν καλέσασ κέρασον ὁμωνύμωσ τῇ πόλει, ὡσ ἱστοροῦσιν οἱ ἡμέτεροι συγγραφεῖσ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 35 2:7)
  • ὁ δεῖν’ Ιἆπυξ, κέρασον εὐζωρέστερον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 223)

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