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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

  • οἳ καὶ τὸν Μακκαβαῖον μέσον λαβόντεσ καὶ σκεπάζοντεσ ταῖσ ἑαυτῶν πανοπλίαισ ἄτρωτον διεφύλαττον, εἰσ δὲ τοὺσ ὑπεναντίουσ τοξεύματα καὶ κεραυνοὺσ ἐξερρίπτουν. διὸ συγχυθέντεσ ἀορασίᾳ κατεκόπτοντο ταραχῆσ πεπληρωμένοι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 10:30)
  • ἀποστελεῖσ δὲ κεραυνοὺσ καὶ πορεύσονται̣ ἐροῦσι δέ σοι. τί ἐστι̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iob 38:35)
  • οἰεί γὰρ εἶναι τὴν Διὸσ τυραννίδα καὶ τοὺσ κεραυνοὺσ ἀξίουσ τριωβόλου, ἐὰν ἀναβλέψῃσ σὺ κἂν σμικρὸν χρόνον; (Aristophanes, Plutus, Prologue 3:17)
  • αἴτιον δὲ τὸ πολλοὺσ κεραυνοὺσ πίπτειν περὶ τὸν τόπον, ἄλλα δὲ τῶν ὑδάτων καὶ σωματώδη ἐστὶ καὶ ἔχει ὥσπερ τι βάροσ ἐν ἑαυτοῖσ, ὡσ τὸ ἐν Τροιζῆνι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 15 3:3)
  • "ὧν μία δίπηχυσ εἰσ ὕψοσ, τὴν δὲ περίμετρον ἔχουσα ἑκκαίδεκα πηχῶν, ἐπόμπευσε δὲ καὶ θώραξ χρυσοῦσ πηχῶν δώδεκα καὶ ἕτεροσ ἀργυροῦσ πηχῶν ιη’,2 ἔχων ἐφ’ ἑαυτοῦ κεραυνοὺσ χρυσοῦσ δεκαπήχεισ δύο καὶ στέφανον δρυὸσ διάλιθον. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 31 3:17)

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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