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κεραυνός

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεραυνός κεραυνοῦ

Structure: κεραυν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a thunderbolt, thunder, thunder

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

  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ κεραυνὸσ ἀπάγει μιᾷ πληγῇ καὶ ὁ θάνατοσ ταχύσ. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 22:3)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ ὁ Ξενοφῶν ποτε διηγούμενοσ τὸ ἐνύπνιον, ὡσ ἐδόκει αὐτῷ κεραυνὸσ ἐμπεσὼν καίειν τὴν πατρῴαν οἰκίαν καὶ τὰ ἄλλα,‐ ‐ ἴστε γάρ ‐ οὐχ ὑπόκρισιν τὴν ὄψιν οὐδ’ ὡσ φλυαρεῖν ἐγνωκὼσ αὐτὰ διεξῄει, καὶ ταῦτα ἐν πολέμῳ καὶ ἀπογνώσει πραγμάτων, περιεστώτων πολεμίων, ἀλλά τι καὶ χρήσιμον εἶχεν ἡ διήγησισ. (Lucian, Somnium sive vita Luciani, (no name) 13:7)
  • εἰ δὲ μὴ βαρύτεροσ ὁ κεραυνὸσ ἦν καὶ πολὺ τὸ πῦρ εἶχε, κἀκεῖνον ἂν ὑφείλετο. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 6:1)
  • νῦν μὲν οὖν συγγνώμην ἀπονέμω σοι, ἐσ δὲ τὸ λοιπόν, ἤν τι ὅμοιον παρανομήσῃσ ἤ τινα τοιοῦτον σεαυτοῦ διάδοχον ἐκπέμψῃσ, αὐτίκα εἴσῃ, ὁπόσον τοῦ σοῦ πυρὸσ ὁ κεραυνὸσ πυρωδέστεροσ. (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 5:2)
  • ἀλλ’ ὁ κεραυνὸσ πόθεν αὖ φέρεται λάμπων πυρί, τοῦτο δίδαξον, καὶ καταφρύγει βάλλων ἡμᾶσ, τοὺσ δὲ ζῶντασ περιφλύει; (Aristophanes, Clouds, Choral, anapests 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. a thunderbolt

Related

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

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